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crevasse

[kruh-vas] / krəˈvæs /
NOUN
precipice
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Everest — like lowering a crane into an icefall crevasse by helicopter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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

While repelling a mountain wall, Mr Huserka’s thread cracked and he fell into an ice crevasse, he partner said.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

To Byatt, maternal mental health is not a gap but a crevasse.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2024

She told him how he’d barked to warn them of the deadly black crevasse.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

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

“I enjoyed the scenery, and there’s a little bit of danger with crevasses and ice fall,“ he said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

Through the “cracks” in the floor of the raft—yawning crevasses would be more accurate—I looked directly into the bottomless depths of the sea.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

“But if we get out of the crevassed area...”

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

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 John Tyndall

Diagram illustrating the crevassing of Convex Sides of glacier.

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

We also see that a slight curvature in the valley, by throwing an additional strain upon one half of the glacier, produces an augmented crevassing of that side.

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

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 John Tyndall

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 John Tyndall


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