And in 2005 he completed a solo east-to-west traverse of the massif.

A magazine cigarette ad showed an alluring pinnacled massif somewhere near Timbuktu.

The massif's gray limestone glowed gold as the sun dropped below the Med.

Northeast of Dungarvan lies the massif known as the Comeragh Mountains.

A thick rime mushroom-emblematicof Patagonian towers in the Fitz Roy massif-guardedthe summit.

His intimate knowledge of the massif would figure huge in locating our jump site.

It's a big massif, the whole thing was fairly wild.

Craning his neck, MacArthur turned to scan the massif, subconsciously taking a step rearward.

The French team pioneered the north pillar of Holstind, the leftmost summit of the massif.

The fulcrum of the line was a rugged massif called Grappa, some 20 kilometres square.

Looming doom: A tidal wave of storm clouds slams down on the Cerro Torre massif.

Inland, the Austrians held firm on the Hermada massif.

Lower and closer, beyond a grassy plain broken up by pine woods, another massif rose.

And just on the other side of that barrier, a sheer massif of dark brown.

But very dangerous snow conditions prompted them to move to the western side of the massif.

Ten kilometres to the south, the red cloud formed a solid massif right across the horizon.