Dictionary definition: étage

Article: Border Post At above 14,000 ft, a lone man treks 7 ...
India Today;  July 24, 2006 ;     568 words ... ... he says. At Nathu La pass, wedged at a height of 14,400 ft in the Himalayas, there is plenty of both. When it rains, it ... and "Nihow" (Chinese for how do you do) and then it is a 7 km downhill trek back home to his wife and two children in Sherethang ...

Article: Hana Mining Confirms Large Potential of Ghanzi Copper-Silver ...
Canadian Corporate News;  May 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ...VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, May 8, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Hana Mining Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:HMG) is pleased to report results from ten new holes completed as part of its ongoing 10,000 meter diamond drilling program at its sediment-hosted Ghanzi Copper-Silver Project in Botswana, Africa which

Article: Stunning leap ; Lt Cdr Mahesh Birajdar, an expert skydiver, ...
India Today;  June 30, 2008 ;     282 words ... ... wing, jumped off a helicopter from 11,500-ft and glided like a bird over Kochi's 3-km long Mattancherry channel. Exhilarating! is how ... jumps, Birajdar wants to glide across the 16-km distance from India to Sri Lanka. With such stunning ...

Article: India to build 7,600 km of roads in strategic northeast
The Hindustan Times;  November 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Pradesh that shares a 1,126-km-long border with China. No figures ... determined" to complete a 217 km highway it is building in Afghanistan ... described an engineering marvel - a nine km tunnel through the 13,000 ft Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh ...

Article: Saudis Sealing 9,000-Km Borders With Iraq & Yemen.
APS Diplomat News Service;  July 6, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... fence along Saudi Arabia's 900-km border with Iraq. The July 1 announcement added a further 8,000-km of security fence to the project. The FT on July 2 quoted Saudi Interior ... construction of the first 900-km fence had begun but the kingdom ...

Article: Cretaceous Cooling History of the Western Carpathians: New Zircon ...
Geolines;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... sup 39^Ar system in white micas and zircon FT system represents the difference of about 3 km in structural level of both units, assuming a ... and/or Klape Unit) provided clasts with zircon FT ages ranging from roughly 130 to 90 Ma, while ...

Article: North Atlantic Resources Ltd.: Delineation Drilling Starts At The ...
CCNMatthews Newswire;  September 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the next phase of drilling at the FT gold project is approximately CAD ... evaluate the mineralized zone at the FT gold project to a vertical depth ... in the next six months". The FT gold project comprises 557 square km of mineral rights and is the priority ...