Yet inland Asculum Picentum was the largest and most important town in all southern Picenum, surrounded by a daunting circumference of high stone walls which echoed the daunting peaks of the mountains also encircling the city.

Massi did no work during most of the breakaway from the first climb, the daunting Aubisque peak, rated in the highest category of difficulty, through the second climb, the similarly rated Tourmalet.

It talked about one of the country's most daunting peaks and the attempts by teams from all over the world to conquer it.

Looming over Chefchaouen at 1616m, Jebel el-Kelaâ might initially appear a daunting peak but, with an early start and a packed lunch, it can easily be climbed in a day if you're in reasonably good shape.

William Pendleton House, a guardian of the New Hampshire woods who scaled the world's most daunting peaks decades before it became fashionable, died last Thursday at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, N.H.

Mr. Sjogren and his wife and business partner, Tina, both 43, have a toilet-paper distributorship in their home country, Sweden, but got into the trek technology business as they ventured to both poles and up Mount Everest and other daunting peaks.

First come the daunting peaks of the Cascade Range, and then a sparsely populated near-desert.

For 19th-century explorers trying to scale the daunting peaks of the Himalayas, it was a kind of alluring El Dorado - one of the great unmapped places of the world, a place whose very isolation endowed it with a frisson of mystery and allure.

His intellectual career has been one long mountain climb, comprising only the most daunting peaks.

The Abominable Snowman seeks refuge among the daunting peaks of the Himalayas.