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3 unusual facts about mountain pass


Cedryn Quarry Tramway

Passing the col at Hafod-y-Rhiw the line ran along a series of low stone embankments to the top of a short incline above Coedty.

Dance radio

Interestingly enough, KRXV-KHWY-KHYZ/Barstow-Mountain Pass, California, which also serves Las Vegas, dropped their Hot AC format to relaunch KVBE's former Dance format and adopts its former "Vibe" moniker the following September.

Jean-Christophe Lafaille

Over four weeks in December and January, he hauled loads up the mountain, entirely alone above his advance base camp at 5300m, but was forced to retreat from the col at Makalu La by strong winds, which destroyed his tent and twice blew him into the air.


Bernard Darniche

He also won the Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo in 1979, the event where he holds the record for most wins on the infamous Col de Turini stage, a 1,600 m Alpine mountain pass normally driven in darkness.

Bichhar Pass

Bichhar pass (el. 14,870 ft.) is a high mountain pass at the boundary of the Ghizer and Gilgit districts in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.

Chillinji Pass

Chillinji pass (el. 17,503 ft., also marked as 17,360 ft.) is a high mountain pass that connects Karambar river valley (upper Gilgit valley) in Ishkoman tehsil of Ghizer district with Chapursan river valley (upper Hunza valley) in Gojal tehsil of Gilgit district in the Northern Areas in Pakistan.

Col de Saverne

The Col de Saverne (Pass of Saverne or Saverne Pass) is a natural pass in the north of the Vosges mountains, near Saverne, which permits travel between the département of Bas-Rhin, région Alsace and the département of Moselle, région Lorraine.

Eureka Pass

Eureka Pass is a mountain pass in the southern Princess Margaret Range of central Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada.

Grand Targhee Resort

A national forest, a mountain pass, a creek and the resort commemorate Chief Targhee's integrity and the memory of the Native American contribution to this country.

Lehigh Gorge State Park

By that time, the city father's of Baltimore were directly trying to compete for the trans-Allegheny trade by incorporation of the ambitious goals of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to surmount to the Monongahela and Ohio valleys via the Cumberland Narrows mountain pass, despite the early lack of power and speed in the untried Railroad technologies.

Llangynog

It lies at the foot of the Milltir Cerrig mountain pass on the B4391 road, which runs between Llan Ffestiniog and Llanfyllin (though the B4391 road number 'disappears' between the western end of Llyn Celyn and Bala).

Lupghar Pir Pass

Lupghar Pir pass (el. 16,420 ft.) is a high mountain pass 6 miles to the west of village Lupghar in the upper Hunza valley in Gojal tehsil of Gilgit district in the Northern Areas in Pakistan.

Oliverian Brook

The brook flows south to the village of Glencliff in the town of Warren before taking a sharp turn to the northwest and flowing through the center of Oliverian Notch, the westernmost of the major passes through the White Mountains.

Port de Lers

The Port de Lers (or Port de l'Hers or Port de Massat, 1,517 m.) is a high mountain pass in the French Pyrenees in the department of Ariège, between the communities of Aulus-les-Bains (west), Massat (north) and Vicdessos (east).

Puerto del Escudo

The Puerto del Escudo (Pass of the Shield) is a mountain pass at 1,011 meters elevation located in the valley of Luena, to the east of the Sierra del Escudo mountain range and on the boundary between Cantabria and Castile (province of Burgos) in Spain.

Styrian Seeberg Pass

Styrian Seeberg Pass (also the Aflenzer Seeberg) (el. 1253 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian Alps, located in the Bundesland of Styria, east of the Hochschwab Mountains.


see also

Aiguilles Rouges National Nature Reserve

A site at the Col des Montets mountain pass was chosen, In 1971 with the support of mountaineer Maurice Herzog, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and Vallorcine created the la réserve intercommunale du col des Montets (Intercommunal reserve of the Col des Montets).

Battle of Cellorigo

After defeating the walls of Zaragoza and sacking the city of Villamayor de Monjardín and other towns of Navarre, he set off once again to take the mountain pass castle at Cellorigo, but this time without the assistance of the troops commanded by Muhammad ibn Lubb.

Chumig Gyatsa

It is the local name for the pilgrimage site Muktinath, a sacred place both for Hindus as well as the Buddhists, located at an altitude of 3,710 meters, at the foot of the Thorung La mountain pass (part of the Himalayas), Mustang district, Nepal.

Col de la Faucille

Col de la Faucille is a high mountain pass in the department of Ain in the French Jura.

Crug Eryr Castle

Cryg Eryr, which means "the eagle's mount," was likely situated to block the mountain pass into Maelienydd.

Dear Boys

Eurobeat music is played during the games, much like how the music genre is featured during the mountain pass races in Initial D.

Ebbets

Ebbetts Pass, a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada range in California

Elbow pass

Elbow Pass, the mountain pass between the Highwood and Elbow areas in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada

Germain Sommeiller

Pointe Sommeiller, a 3332-meter-high peak in the Cottian Alps, and Col Sommeiller, the nearby mountain pass linking Bramans, France to Bardonecchia, Italy, were named in his honour.

Godovič Pass

The Godovič Pass is a mountain pass between Ajdovščina and Črni Vrh, both in the Goriška region of Slovenia.

Groot River

Grootrivier Pass, a mountain pass above the Groot River (Tsitsikamma) Valley (South Africa)

Guide to the Lakes

This section of the guidebook is an ode in blank verse by Wordsworth evoking the hard ascent and joyful descent of Kirkstone Pass, a high mountain pass between Ambleside and Patterdale.

Highland Main Line

Other distinct features on the route include the viaducts at Culloden and Tomatin, the spectacular mountain pass at Drumochter and the severe gradients encountered in both directions, particularly the extended climb from Inverness to the Slochd summit which averages around 1 in 60 the whole way.

Homestake

Homestake Pass, a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the United States

Klemmbach

The Klemmbach, a small Black Forest stream, has its source in the southwestern Black Forest near a mountain pass between the peaks of Blauen and Belchen.

Laborec Highlands

The highlands are also the location of the strategically significant Dukla Pass, the lowest mountain pass in the main ranges of the Carpathians, and the site of the Battle of the Dukla Pass of September and October 1944.

Maryland Route 67

Gapland Road heads east to Crampton's Gap, a mountain pass through South Mountain that provides access to Burkittsville in the Middletown Valley.

McGillivray

McGillivray Pass, a mountain pass in the Lillooet Country of British Columbia

Nozuka

Nozuka Pass, mountain pass in the south-end of the Hidaka Mountains, Hokkaidō, Japan.

Palatinate-Lützelstein

Lützelstein Castle, erected by the Counts of Blieskastel at a mountain pass to Lorraine, and the surrounding territory originally were a fief of the Bishopric of Strasbourg.

Plješivica

It stretches in the direction north–south, and it extends from the mountain pass that separates it from Mala Kapela, along the Krbava field to the west and the Una River canyon to the east, and ending near Gračac where it touches on Velebit.

Resia, Friuli

The same mountain pass also leads to the Učja Canyon (Uccea), which ends in the Soča valley near the Slovenian village of Žaga.

Ringgold, Georgia

Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne with 4,100 men used the mountain pass known as the Ringgold Gap to stall the advance of Union Major General Joseph Hooker and his troops.

San Francisquito Pass

San Francisquito Pass, is a mountain pass of the Sierra Pelona Mountains northeast of Green Valley, in Los Angeles County, California.

Tartano Pass

Passo di Tartano is a mountain pass that links the village of Tartano in Valtellina with Valleve in Val Brembana.

Tonalite

The name is derived from the type locality of tonalites, adjacent to the Tonale Line, a major structural lineament and mountain pass, Tonale Pass, in the Italian and Austrian Alps.

Trout Creek

Trout Creek Pass, a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. state of Colorado

Vivione Pass

Vivione Pass Passo (Italian Passo del Vivione) is a mountain pass that links Schilpario in Val di Scalve with Paisco Loveno in Val Camonica.

Wauconda

Wauconda Pass, a high mountain pass in the Cascades in the state of Washington