rock face
Example Sentences
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He starred in the Oscar-winning documentary film “Free Solo,” which captured his record-setting 2017 no-ropes ascent of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot sheer rock face.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024
The new specialist netting will help prevent loose stones falling from a fragile rock face measuring 10m high and 100m long above the railway.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2024
In 1972, the community of Naters blasted a path into a steep rock face to offer the herders and sheep an alternative way home.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024
He tossed the rock, face down, beside his dirt pile, as if it had no special value.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
