The current Bookmobile One has lumbered up snowy passes, has skated down icy spurs in the winter and has been buffeted by frost heaves in the spring for the last 10 years.

Call tried to imagine the scene the Captain was describing--the great beasts winding up and up, into the snowy passes--but he had never seen an elephant, just a few pictures of them in books.

A land of high snowy passes and ancient gompas on the borderlands of Tibet, Ladakh is the kind of place where your imagination can run away with you.

Veg, exploring indefatigably, said there was a snowy pass through the range at the head of the stream, and some hot areas of ground: even the silent volcanoes were far from defunct.

And it does seem as if much of my daily work involves negotiating the snowy pass between my private and public self.

The troops in Vardenis began their assault shortly thereafter but their advance was slowed since they had to trek through the snowy passes of the Murov Mountains.

Like many of those who gathered here, the fighters had come over the snowy passes from Chechnya, where they had been helping their fellow Muslims in their struggle to break with the Russian republic.

They crossed the arduous snowy passes of the Pir Panjal mountain range on elephants to reach Srinagar.

At dawn, in snowy passes, we labored toward the town of Mojave, which was the entryway to the great Tehachapi Pass.

My first admission was a fireman named George who, several months before, had been the sole survivor when, as he was driving over a snowy pass, his car had crashed head-on with a drunken driver's.