Possible Clues:

• Service provided in part of mountain range
• Metres short, summit in sight -- and no way round mountains
• Even though deeper than US state, it's a group of mountains
• A lot of people I originally found in a mountainous region
• Religious service provided that range
• Regularly assess replacing line in movie about mountains
• Service provided for Highland area?
• Service providing part of range
• Service provided centrally in France?
• Graduate's famous poem about southern peaks