crevasse

"We reached it on 10 April. The crevasse below is melting," he said, adding that Sherpas after him said it had melted further and was close to collapsing.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

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

But I threw my weight hard on the bar and tugged until it began grudgingly to move, and then slid abruptly right away from the crevasse.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

There’s a point being made there: His wrinkles and crevasses echo the landscape, which has also been shaped by time and forces of nature.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2024

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

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

They sat in groups on its stone ledges and in the crevasses between the big boulders.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Just a walk through miles of snow and ice and glaciers and boulders and crevasses to the towering top of a sleeping volcano.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

Looking out over those crevassed hills, with outcroppings of dark rock showing through the yellow grass, I felt that this spontaneous spirit of mercantilism was at the heart of the Silk Road.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

Cons: Because it’s fractured and crevassed, Hynek says it would likely be necessary to land off the glacier and traverse over to it to bring the ice and water back to the astronauts’ habitation module.

From Forbes ● Dec. 9, 2014

Climbers on other teams stepped in to shield Moro and his colleagues, who, spitting blood, packed up their essential gear and fled, taking a dangerous, highly crevassed back route down the mountain.

From Newsweek ● May 2, 2013

That face, a crevassed landscape that suggests sorrow and history, has the granitic grandeur of W. H. Auden in his later life.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011

Thirteen miles today; but if we try to keep up such a pace among these cut, heaped, crevassed pressure-ridges we shall wear ourselves out or come to worse grief than a bellyslide.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Diagram illustrating the crevassing of Convex Sides of glacier.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

And see how beautifully these simple principles enable us to account for the remarkable crevassing of the eastern side of the Mer de Glace.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

Thus we see that the crevassing of the eastern side of the glacier is a simple consequence of the quicker motion of that side, and does not, as hitherto supposed, demonstrate its slower motion.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

Diagram illustrating the crevassing of Convex Sides of glacier323 29.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

But the measurement of the foregoing three lines shows that this cannot be the true cause of the crevassing.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John