31.   A light aircraft crashed in a remote mountain area Thursday evening killing all four passengers.

32.   A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said the snow would be a major problem, especially in mountain areas.

33.   According to news reports, the plane was on a rescue training session in this mountain area.

34.   Although Georgia is a largely Christian country, many people in overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey trace their roots to Caucasus mountain areas like Georgia and Chechnya.

35.   And Russian ground troops combing mountain areas during the weekend uncovered a rebel base near Shatoi, killing five rebels, the military claimed.

36.   Bad weather, poor roads and civil war conspired to delay emergency aid supplies from reaching quake victims in the isolated mountain area for almost a week.

37.   Authorities said police were on a routine patrol in a rugged mountain area Sunday when a heavily armed gang attacked them.

38.   Banja Lukans have historically sympathized more with pro-Belgrade Communists than with the strong Serbian nationalism of mountain areas like Pale.

39.   Basayev was speaking in a Chechen mountain area in a recent interview with Groznensky Rabochy, the Interfax news agency said.

40.   Casualty reports cannot be independently verified, as gunbattles often occur in remote mountain areas closed by the authorities to outsiders.