No information was immediately available from the remote, mountainous areas of Nepal closer to the epicenter.

At least 53 people have been confirmed dead and 62 are injured after a major earthquake struck China's mountainous Tibet region on Tuesday morning, Chinese state media reported.

The sites are in the rocky, mountainous desert near Joshua Tree and amid dense forests and pristine lakes near the Oregon border.

Politics at Westminster feels much more competitive than the numbers suggest it should: Labour's mountainous majority means they will rarely feel even a marginally quickened pulse when it comes to Commons votes.

Southern California neighborhoods include ZIP codes in Malibu, Beverly Hills and other communities in mountainous areas.