crevasse
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The dragon will give Mae the flower, but first she must rescue his son, which has fallen down a crevasse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
To Byatt, maternal mental health is not a gap but a crevasse.
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2024
Honnold wants to continue even as they approach the center of a crevasse field, where giant cracks in the surface, some hundreds of feet deep, are hard to spot until they’re nearly underfoot.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024
"These commonly include avalanches, open crevasse holes, icy steep slopes, and falling rocks and ice."
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2024
As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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