WHILE hiking in the Swiss Alps one autumn, I passed a log chalet, smoke puffing neatly from the chimney, and children playing contentedly on the balcony in view of waterfalls, pastures, densely wooded forest and shockingly high mountains crowned with snow.

On Home are golden mountains crowned with opals and forests of dreams!

Situated in a picturesque setting on the slope of a mountain crowned by a castle Templar ruined in the Carlist Wars.

To the east and west, gloomy purple mountains crowned with clouds were just visible in the gathering darkness.

Three years ago, Chouinard and a few other "old bulls" decided to tackle Mount Waddington in British Columbia, a notoriously difficult mountain crowned with an icy rock tower.

Their silhouettes dominate the adjacent villages and rise sharp against the background of the mountains crowned by Mount Aragats.

His eyes looked up and down the white mountain, crowned with its snowy, high cloth hat of office, for even the slovenly Swelter had dressed himself up for the occasion.