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		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc, at 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), on the French-Italian border.
		The effect of mountain chains on prevailing winds is to carry warm air belonging to the lower region into an upper zone, where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow or rain.
		The Alps arose as a result of the pressure exerted on sediments of the Tethys Ocean basin as its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Alps (1445 words)

	ALPS Articles The Alps (German: Alpen; French: Al
		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4,808&_160;metres (15,774&_160;ft) on the French-Italian border.
		Croatia stretches from the slopes of the Alps and spreads to the Pannonian valley and to the banks of the Danube and Drava rivers.
		It is bounded by the Apennine Mountains to the North and East, the Apuan Alps on the northwest and by the Tyrrhenian Sea on the West.
	www.amazines.com /Alps_related.html (3100 words)

	Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4,808 m on the French-Italian border.
		The effect of mountain chains on prevailing winds is to carry warm air belonging to the lower region into an upper zone, where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow or rain.
		The Alps arose as a result of the pressure exerted on sediments of the Tethys Ocean basin as its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alps (1474 words)

	List of mountains of the Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of mountains of the Alps, ordered by elevation.
		For a list ordered by topographic prominence, see the list of Alpine peaks by prominence.
		This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_mountains_of_the_Alps (80 words)

	Alps - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4810 meters on the French-Italian border.
		The Eastern Alps are commonly subdivided according to the different geological composition of the more central parts of the Alps and the groups at its northern and southern fringes: Northern Limestone Alps, Central Eastern Alps and Southern Limestone Alps.
		The border between the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the so-called Periadriatic Seam.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Alps (701 words)

	Bernina Parts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alps 29: The highest peak in the Eastern Alps is Piz Bernina, at 4052 m the only peak above 4000 meters.
		Swiss Alps 7: ; Bernina Alps : from the Maloja to the Reschen Schei
		Main chain of the Alps 27: roup, the Piz Bernina (13,304 feet), to the Bernina Pass.
	www.daikaiju.com /edge/22538-berninaparts.html (302 words)

	Rocky Mountains
		Thought of as high, majestic, craggy, and snowy mountain walls that march down the west edge of the plains uninterrupted from the Arctic to Mexico, the Rockies and their "Purple Mountian's Majesty" are an important part of every North American's mental picture of his country.
		List may not be complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included.
		Missouri Mountain: The bulky, ledge mass of Missouri Mountain from the Pine Creek valley.
	www.peakbagger.com /range.aspx?rid=14 (792 words)

	Mountains in The Alps, that are more than 4000 meter.
		Mountains in The Alps, that are more than 4000 meter.
		One could still argue that the UIAA list is a bit arbitrary, there exist summits with a primary factor of 40 meter (example: Grand Gendarme on Rimpfischhorn) that are not included, while Puenta Giordani with only 5 meter of prominence has been included.
		A "real" mountain is defined to have a minimal drop (before one can ascend something higher) of at least 100 meter.
	www.ii.uib.no /~petter/mountains/alps_4000.html (160 words)

	NASA - Lunar Olympics
		The lunar Alps are a range of mountains on the moon named after the Alps of Europe.
		Today's lunar Alps are a bit shorter (the moon's Mont Blanc is only 11,800 ft or 3600 m high) and a lot smoother than their terrestrial counterparts—perfect for Olympics.
		Montes Alps -- (wikipedia) a mountain range in the northern part of the Moon's near side, named for the Alps in Europe.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2006/08feb_lunaralps.htm (684 words)

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		With all the Alps have to offer and the rich cultural heritage passed on from former generations, it’s hard not to become engaged in the beauty of the Alps.
		Being in open glaciated valleys with jagged steep mountains in all directions is guaranteed to fulfill and challenge your climbing needs and goals.
		Mountaineering in the heart of the world’s oldest region for Alpine climbing.
	www.summitexpeditions.com /europeanalps.htm (343 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Australian Alps montane grasslands (AA1001)
		The ancient, weathered Australian Alps are distinct from neighboring mountains: both the New Zealand Alps and the Tasmanian mountains have sharp, spiky peaks as a result of extensive glaciation and the alpine herbfield element is weakly developed in Tasmanian Mountains because snow cover there is short-lived.
		The Australian Alps are also unusual because they have well-formed soils all the way up to the highest summits, as a result of their extreme age.
		The mountain pygmy possum is the only marsupial to undergo long periods of hibernation, similar to placental mammals of the Northern Hemisphere (Strahan 1998).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1001_full.html (1787 words)

	SummitPost - Dinaric Alps -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		The height of the majority of the mountains is between 1,000 and 2,000 meters, except the highest central core of Dinaric "triangle" where the most of the summits are between 1,900 and 2,600 meters high.
		Mountains on the northern edge of the Dinaric Alps and the lower laying areas of the North-Eastern chain have a mixture of mountain and continental climates (of Central-European or Balkan types), sometimes this climate is called moderate-continental and mountainous.
		Although, to group mountains in Dinaric Alps according to the state where they are situated, could be the easiest way to do it, in many cases political borders would limit the perception of a mountain and a group as a whole.
	www.summitpost.org /area/range/155326/dinaric-alps.html (8609 words)

	Alps
		The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria in the east, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany, through to France in the west.
		The highest mountain in the Alps is the Mont Blanc at 4810 meters on the French-Italian border.
		The Alps of Bavaria, the Vorarlberg, and Salzburg - Tirolean Alps - Ortler, Oetzthal and Stubai Ranges - Lombard Alps - Dolomites - South-Eastern Alps
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/a/al/alps.shtml (186 words)

	Climbing in the Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most of Europe is within four hours of the Alps by train, the time it takes us to drive from Seattle to Washington Pass for a day of climbing.
		We summitted: Mont Blanc (15,771'), highest peak in the Alps, France, and Italy; Dufourspitze (15,203'), Zumsteinspitze (14,970'), and Signalkuppe (14,947', all part of Monte Rosa, the highest peak in Switzerland); The Matterhorn (14,692'), Mont Blanc du Tacul (13,937'), Breithorn (13,661') and others.
		Unexpectedly we bumped into Chris Madden and Pat, of the Mountaineers and Seattle Mountain Rescue, preparing to climb Mont Blanc, as well as Peter Pond and Robin at the Hornlihutte, waiting to climb the Matterhorn.
	www.mountaineers.org /climbing/News_Events/CN202_Alps.html (860 words)

	Climbed mountains with prominence exceeding 1000 meter.
		This list is ranked (sorted) according to the "primary factor" (in the US also called "prominence") of the peak.
		Only mountains with a primary factor of at least 1000 meter is qualified for this list.
		The column "vertical climb" currently lists the vertical elevation from the actual trailhead to the summit.
	www.ii.uib.no /~petter/mountains/PFlist.html (106 words)

	Alps jobs \| SimplyHired
		With its charming Bavarian architecture, excellent schnitzel and the high Cascade Mountains tapping on its shoulder, Leavenworth might as well be in the middle of the Alps....
		ALPS is seeking a maintenance mechanic to maintain, repair and troubleshoot our machinery on 1st shift.
		ALPS Mutual Funds Services, Inc. Title: Internal Audit Manager Reports to: Chief Compliance Officer Based at: Denver, CO. Job purpose: Conduct risk-based audits that assess and provide recommended improvements to the effectiveness of controls, compliance with applicable laws and...
	www.simplyhired.com /index.php?ds=sr&q=Alps&l=&sl=save (666 words)

	SOMPY.com - Free Pocket PC PDA Softwares and Themes
		The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
		By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain system which includes the Himalaya proper, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a host of minor ranges extending from the Pamir Knot.
		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4810 m on the French-Italian border.
	www.sompy.com /nt_travel.html (708 words)

	Salon
		The great mountain range that is the Alps forms a 750-mile-long crescent, with one tip in southeastern France reaching almost right down to the Mediterranean (the Alpes Maritimes), and the other in the Julian Alps of Slovenia, with the Italian lake district propping up the southern flank.
		The Alps invite speculation into our mortality because mountains, after all, are dangerous; writers (usually male) attracted to danger and physical risk, and interested in locale, will naturally attend.
		The exquisite novel "Solo Faces" (1979), by James Salter, manages to be solely on the subject of mountains and their constant peril for those who fixate on them: testimony to the author's own general preoccupation with greatness and great acts, with the spirit expressed purely without distraction or contamination.
	www.salon.com /books/literary_guide/2006/09/25/alps (482 words)

	Alps Top 25 By Reduced Spire Measure
		Mont Blanc: Not surprisingly the highest peak in the Alps is the winner in terms of spire measure.
		It is at the northern edge of the group and therefore towers over the nearby valley and the town of La Grave.
		Monte Rosa is well-known as the high point of Switzerland and one of the highest peaks of the Alps.
	www.peaklist.org /spire/lists/alps-25.html (1534 words)

	Mountains of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Students must also match the mountains and their ranges to their specific continents (North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia) on maps and on a globe.
		Mount McKinley is a mountain in south central ___________________.
		The Mountain Zone is an online magazine for people who work and play in the mountains; it offers information on climbing, hiking, mountain biking, mountain photography, skiing and snowboarding.
	www.pcsb.k12.fl.us /teachnet/jfredricks/mountainsless1.htm (1067 words)

	National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Mountains
		The highest mountains on the Australian mainland are in an area known as the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, part of the Great Dividing Range which separates the central lowlands from the eastern highlands.
		Note: In producing a list of highest mountains, there is always subjective debate over what should and should not be included.
		The Victorian Alps are a mecca for bushwalking and horse-riding in the summer, and cross-country and downhill skiing in the winter.
	www.ga.gov.au /education/facts/landforms/highmtns.htm (333 words)

	IUCN World Conservation Bookstore - IUCN Publications/Mountains Backlist
		The final chapter of this publication considers the extent to which the experience of the Alps might be valuable in other transnational mountain regions in Europe.
		Cooperation at the scale of entire mountain ranges, whether through formal agreements or regional institutions, is widely acknowledged to be desirable.
		Mountains cover a quarter of the earth's land surface.
	www.iucn.org /bookstore/mountains-backlist.htm (534 words)

	Travel Plans International- Northern Italy: Lake District, Italian Alps, the Veneto and Venice (14 Days)
		You are in the Lombardy region, which begins in the Alps on Italy’s border with Switzerland; features villas and pallazzi on lakes Maggiore and Como that have attracted vacationers for countless centuries; and includes Milano, the fashion center of Italy.
		Because it extends into the mountains of Switzerland, and because of the flowers, vegetation, and trees on the gently sloping banks of the lake, many people consider Lago Maggiore to be even more warm and more picturesque than Lake Como.
		Hotel Cavallino D’ Oro, an exquisite mountain resort and your home for the next two nights, is a 20 mile drive northeast of Bolzano, exiting from the motorway onto secondary roads.
	www.travelplansintl.com /Northern-Italy-Lake-District-the-Italian-Alps-Veneto-and-Venice.html (3250 words)

	Amazon.com: Walking in the Alps (Travel): Books: Kev Reynolds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Coverage is exhaustive in terms of area: from the Alpes Maritime in France to the wooded hills of Vienna, with Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria in between.
		The introduction says that "the mountain walker the individual with good general fitness, a modicum of scrambling experience and an eye for the hills, can move far enough and at the right paced...
		I covered 3 passages indicated for this great man (Kev Reynolds) in the zone of the Graian Alps, in France, and any one of the passages corresponded to the one that assumes to be.
	www.amazon.com /Walking-Alps-Travel-Kev-Reynolds/dp/1566563437 (1603 words)

	SummitPost - Alps - Western Part -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		These are smaller mountains -except Monviso-, eaten by the time due to sedimentary metamorphosed rocks, with normally not extremely difficult slopes and ridges wherefrom, sometimes, fine shaped summits poke out.
		Even the secondary mountains, on both the sides of the watershed, are not so easy ones, especially when they are close to the main ridge.
		Out of the main watershed of the Alps, on its western side, a big high group with the highest mountains west of Mont Blanc, this is the Dauphinè.
	www.summitpost.org /area/range/155280/alps-western-part.html (2116 words)

	Alibris: Alps
		This masterful epic of military history thrillingly chronicles the defeats and triumphs of the Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force of WW II, renowned for holding the Axis at bay from North Africa to the Alps from1939 to 1945.
		For centuries, Europeans shunned the peaks of the Alps, fearing them to be realms of icy terror, inhospitable regions that harbored dragons, demons, witches, and all sorts of alien beings.
		When he first saw the Alps in 1860, Edward Whymper was a 20-year-old English wood engraver whose dream was to become an arctic explorer.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Alps (1193 words)

	Planet Ark : Alps, Hindu Kush world's most threatened mountains
		In a study, the Tokyo-based university said mountains were threatened by pollution, war, deforestation, agriculture, mining and too many tourists - all of which could lead to a slew of serious natural disasters.
		Mountains, which play a crucial role in world water supplies, cover about 20 percent of the world's landmass and are home to about 10 percent of all humans.
		The Alps have been hurt by growing tourism and a migration of people from lower levels into more mountainous terrain.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=14202&newsdate=28-Jan-2002 (910 words)

	Outside glance pictures - Mountain Adventure stock photos, fine art prints by QTL
		The Mont-Blanc range is compact enough that one can view the opposite faces of the same mountains from each of the surrounding valleys, here the Grandes Jorasses seen from each side.
		The mountains north of the Mont-Blanc range, known as the Aiguilles Rouges, are easily accessible thanks to two cable cars, easy hiking trails, and overnight huts.
		You have the feeling of almost touching the mountains, however this is only remotely close to the experience of being in those mountains.
	www.terragalleria.com /mountain/mountain.high-alps.html (230 words)

	French Alps Bicycle Tour - General Info - Erickson Cycle Tours European Travel Packages Bicycling Tours
		Our Alps tour will also be very special, as we can choose our climb on the last and hardest stage in the Alps, Stage 17, Bourg d’Oisans to Le Grand Bornand.
		Not only will we climb all of the cols in the Alps of this year’s Tour, we will ride countless small, incredibly scenic roads that are seldom if ever part of the Tour de France.
		The Tour de France and “Les Alpes”; it is impossible to think of one without the other.
	ecycletours.com /content2004/05-french_alps.htm (401 words)

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