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
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
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
There was a crevasse stretching right in front of me.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
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It is a dangerous and unstable place, "criss-crossed with crevasses", and with slopes of up to 45 degrees, according to the Polish team.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
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
In a few minutes my paper reflects a jagged inner landscape of sharp edges and deep crevasses.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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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
We had spent all day struggling and backtracking in the cut-up, crevassed area east of the Fire-Hills; We were tired that evening but elated, sure that a clear course would soon open out ahead.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
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
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
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
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