crevasses
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It’s best known for wide spine-tingling crevasses spanned by flimsy-looking aluminum ladders lashed together with rope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Their branches grow in wildly unpredictable directions, and the trees’ gray, gnarled trunks are shot through with holes and crevasses large enough to hide a sleeping child.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Yet for decades, due to the risk of avalanches and hidden snow-lined crevasses, no research expedition had ever been able to reach the peak of Nevado Huascarán to collect these ancient records.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
Mountaineers and officials say streams have now begun to flow right from the middle of the base camp and crevasses are widening dangerously and very quickly.
From BBC ● May 28, 2023
Deep crevasses snaked across their path from time to time.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
