They may settle comfortably into a local minimum, a higher valley.
They stopped at a way station in a high valley.
About a half-mile off I saw a lake, larger than the one in the high valley.
In the year 600 the high valley looked pretty much as it does today.
It had, no doubt, been raining heavily behind them in the high valley.
"Aren't there a lot of these in the high valley down the road?"
I rode into the high valley where that ghost lake was.
And without me in this high valley they would die.
Some may even reach the higher valleys of the Alps.
And they too built their homes in the high valley.