At mid-morning a range of low hills loomed ahead, and the raft refused to climb the few hundred feet necessary to clear the ridge.

The ground was frozen and uneven, and a range of mountains loomed in the distance.

A low range of mountains loomed before them, the next obstacle.

The range of hills, of which this was an outcropping, loomed behind and around them, spreading to the east.

A range of coastal mountains loomed blue in the distance.

At last the range of hills that was His Supremacy loomed out of the driven smog.