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"Once communities are involved, conservation becomes more sustainable," says Deepshikha Sharma, programme manager with NCF's High Altitudes initiative.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Altitudes may be referenced to mean sea level, but this, too, is only an approximation; sea level depends on the tide, on the season, on which side of the Panama Canal you are on.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2015

Altitudes may also be advantageously employed, especially as regards wind and air pressure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike most of his colleagues, Goddard believed rocketry was a viable technology, and his paper, primly titled "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," was designed to prove it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kangra—History—State—Kahalur—Bhomor—Kottahar—Yasawal—Datarpur—Gular—Nurpur—Chamba—Kullu—Mundi—Sukhet 309 Register of the Weather, from February 1802 to March 1903 318 Calculation of the Altitudes of some of the Snowy Mountains from the Valley of Nepal. 

From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Hamilton, Francis