While the restaurant is no great shakes, with faded décor and antediluvian levels of service, you can see almost the entire Bernese Oberland from the windows and viewing platform, and 200 or so craggy peaks stretching away to the pink haze of the horizon.

The sound is surrounded by saw-toothed snow-covered peaks stretching to the far horizon.

Sisko looked out at the vista of the Cirran Mountains--bold, craggy, snow-capped peaks stretching to the northwest; gentle foothills to the southeast melting gracefully into green meadows tens of kilometers away; transparent clouds high brushstrokes on the scarlet sky as dawn changed to day, red turned to blue.

In three increments, the image grew until it was distinguishable as a continuous string of volcanic peaks stretching across three continental landmasses and a long archipelago.

Located between the two main arms of the Jatiluhur Reservoir, this andesite mountain of volcanic rock shows three distinct peaks stretching some 1.5km from north to south, the highest of which is 963m above sea-level.

It is the tallest of the Morros or "Nine Sisters", a chain of similar peaks stretching to Morro Bay.

At almost every turn, yet another view of unspoiled peaks stretching far into the distance tempts you to stop, rip off your goggles and gape.

After the death of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, the Maratha Empire expanded greatly under the rule of the Peshwas, at its peak stretching from Tamil Nadu in the south, to Peshawar (modern-day Pakistan) on the Afghanistan border in the north, and with expeditions to Bengal in the east.

Europa's only land surface consisted of four small connected peaks stretching in a knobby Hne over a dozen kilometers of surface.

There is a concrete road running through the island, but the terrain is rugged and mountainous with several peaks stretching more than 500 metres high.