21.   Then you look at the setting in the lower slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains and realize that the whole is superior to the parts.

22.   What little snow had been manufactured for the lower slopes was dissolving under drizzle.

23.   Across the White Drini River from the hill, Mt. Pastrik looms westwards, its shrub-covered lower slopes ascending to strata of naked limestone.

24.   Its lower slopes are intensively cultivated.

25.   Largescale deforestation and development on the Himalayan slopes has loosened the soil loose and severely weakened the lower Himalayan slopes.

26.   Many thousands more hike amid the volcanic boulders and conifer trees on its lower slopes.

27.   Mount Ruapehu is at the center of a national park, with only small tourist and farm towns around its lower slopes.

28.   Most families can afford one of the small houses that cling to the lower slopes of now-extinct volcanoes.

29.   Skiers in the region were evacuated to Whakapapa village, on the lower slopes of the central North Island mountain, he said.

30.   Skiers in the region were evacuated to Whakapapa village, on the lower slopes of the central North Island mountain, Detective Sergeant Derek Webb of Taumaranui police said.