Authorities said the youngsters endured searing deserts and frigid mountains, as well as malnourishment.

The thought of a night spent clinging to this frigid mountain, the wind whistling louder than Harald's snoring, did nothing to raise my spirits.

He was determined to make it look as though we were being held in the frigid mountains of Afghanistan, not in a bustling city in Pakistan.

In the distance the wolves' long plaintive howls echoed through the frigid mountains, off the moonlit snow blanketing the seemingly endless, desolate, colossal slopes.

Then she hurried out of the emergency room into the frigid, dark mountain night.

However, a storm from the frigid mountains would destroy such plants.

It has been expected since India fought intense battles with Pakistani-backed forces in the frigid mountains of Kashmir six months ago.

Trucks wheeze along frigid mountain passes.

President Bush announced the relief plan on Tuesday in response to the suffering and soaring number of deaths among Kurds who fled into the frigid mountains of their ancestral region.

The nearest star was Alpha Centauri, but it was too far south to be seen from these frigid mountains.