These breed athigh altitudes in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, and winter south to Mexico.
Seldom, at high altitudes, are the individual discharges very violent, though being near at hand they sound loud enough.
Mr. Whymper, I believe, is one of the few English climbers who has spent many days together with a tent at high altitudes in the Alps, and he has not published any notice of his experiences.
Where, as in the tropics, the heat is great by day and the frost at high altitudes bitter by night, destruction goes quickly forward, and the mountains are vigorously reduced.
All these climbers were, however, acclimatised to high altitudes.
As the whole metabolism of the body is kept in working order by the oxygen supplied through the lungs, the obvious result of high altitudes is to interfere with the various processes occurring in the system.
For in the rarefied air at high altitudes there is insufficient oxygen to promote the normal oxidation of bodily tissue.
These relations are particularly important in the design of all balloons, and in computations relating to aeroplane flight at high altitudes.
The effect of an accumulation of ice, sleet, snow, rain, or dew might be serious in connection with flights in high altitudes or during bad weather.
A more serious matter is the increased difference between the internal pressure of the gas and the external pressure of the atmosphere at high altitudes.
The distribution of the snow is due to the contrasts between shade and sun temperatures, which find their best expression in high altitudes and on single peaks of small extent.
The chief reason would be the greater expansion of the air in the equatorial low pressure belt and the consequent more abundant outflow of air at high altitudes in the form of anti-trades or winds returning poleward above the trades.
There the air expands upward and flows poleward at high altitudes.
The large range at high altitudes is due chiefly to the small quantity of water vapor, for this declines steadily with increased altitude.
The mountain, grown at high altitudes, is a small, steel-blue bean, and is considered by British traders as equal to the best varieties grown anywhere.
Trees flower in January and March, and in high altitudes as late as June or July.
Our progress was not difficult, however, as the forest had assumed the thin and open nature characteristic of high altitudes, and it was possible to proceed in any direction.
Out on the prairie the poplar usually follows the coniferous trees, but in the Rockies, where the poplar can not grow at high altitudes, the pines follow after spruce and balsam, or vice versa.
The air is deliciously cool, and as it is clear, excepting at certain seasons and at high altitudes, everything stands out sharp and well defined, and all the surrounding scenery is seen to the best advantage.
It is highly probable that it may also be found at high altitudeson Mounts Kenia, Elgon, and Ruwenzori, and on this supposition I include it as a British East African species.
This duyker is found on Kilimanjaro at high altitudes.
These men concluded that the heart is subjected to no greater strain in high altitudes than at sea-level, except under the strain of physical exertion.
Commonly he hibernates in high altitudes, many going to sleep near or above the timber-line.
The peculiar effects of laughing-gas and carbon-monoxide gas on people are due to the lack of oxygen in the gas; and the same applies to the air at high altitudes.
Arizona mountains; six to twelve inches tall, growing in dense shade at high altitudes, and brilliant red throughout.
This forms loose mats on rocky ledges, at high altitudes.
These little plants grow in sandy soil, at high altitudes, and are plentiful on the gravelly "domes" around Yosemite.
Re-evaporation may thus readily take place even at high altitudes, and complete cyclical operations may be carried out there.
The complete cycle may be carried out in temperate zones; gaseous masses, also, leaving equatorial regions at high altitudes do not necessarily reach the polar regions, but may attain their lowest levels at intermediate points.
All circumstances combine, in fact, to confine the more powerfully energised and highly mobile air masses to high altitudes.
Life at high altitudes, 150; in other worlds, Garrett P.
The Hadley Climatological Laboratory of the University of New Mexico has made special investigations as to the increased lung capacity of those living at high altitudes, the relation of dry soil to health, etc.
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