<p><i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Picea_schrenkiana" title="Picea schrenkiana">Picea schrenkiana</a></i>, Almarasan gorge in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Almaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Almaty">Almaty</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> in winter. 
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There are trees only on the top of the mountain, the slopes are too steep for them.
Jonas Satkauskas
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