About Mountain Pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both human and animal migration throughout Earth's history.
Work due to begin after seven landslips close A83 in Argyll
... Transport Scotland is planning to build a mile-long open-sided tunnel on the road, on the Mountain Pass known as the Rest and Be Thankful...
The worst mountain disaster in British history
... They were then to descend and come together, spending the night at the Corrour Bothy in the Lairig Ghru Mountain Pass...
The treasure is hidden in discarded computers
... The Mountain Pass mine in California is part owned by China s Shenghe Resources The Mountain Pass mine in California, sold 100% of its rare earth metals in a concentrated form to China and which is part owned by the Chinese company Shenghe Resources, a 9...
French cyclists hit again by curse of Tour de France
... Up in the Alps on Friday, as they sweated up the Col de l Iseran Mountain Pass, we learned about the chain of forts built in the 19th Century when Savoie was still an independent duchy, and how the quaint River Arc is 127...