What a good climber may reach

Usage examples of mountaintop.

Finally, very much later, when the heat of the afternoon had dwindled and the lethargy of a well-spent day enveloped the occupants of room 202, the only Absarokee prospecting for gold in Diamond City left the soft bed and warm woman and headed north out of Virginia City to his cabin on the mountaintop.

The music played on, a long tapestry of soft flute-noises and droning chords that made him think of the wind moaning around mountaintops, but with a strange little backbeat that kept surfacing and then fading down into the mix again.

They were no longer on the mountaintop, but in a cathedral-like grove of large old basswood trees.

When the hyena told him, Ngai hurled him off the mountaintop for having the audacity to believe he could become a man.

The ice-covered mountaintop of her life shattered, sending boulders flying and a pyroclastic flow of exultation down the slopes.

How could I not be happy with my boyfriend Gary in a stone wedding cake on a Rajasthani mountaintop?

Seri had felt a compulsion to explore the mountaintop, and then the western canyons, while the others took one look at that gray mountain and wanted to go there.

The mountaintop above the stronghold stood out clearly, but not the canyons between.

Cold War fears that decades earlier had swept listening posts onto remote mountaintops and Arctic wastelands and into hidden valleys was now receding like a fast-falling tide.

She was still weak from boosting a mountaintop across half a Hell to crush her foes, a bare breath or three after whisking poor howling-insane Halaster back toToril.

The marine fossils on mountaintops, he decided, had not been deposited during floods, but had risen along with the mountains themselves.

By comparison the creatures that dominated the roof of the world, the upland areas and mountaintops, left few traces, for their habitats were subject to ferocious uplift and erosion.

What was she doing on mountaintops, and on the stage of a theater if she had heart disease?

Hill, lived very much like his father, and among the people of the town, Jefferson, very unlike his father or other Virginia planters, had removed to a mountaintop, removed from contact with everyday life, to create a palatial country seat of his own design in the manner of the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio.

Others were coming in, a surge of voices in his head, from mountaintops and hills and lowlands, huts and tents and caves, hunters, miners, growers, searakers, quarriers, toolmakers, suddenly become a unity.