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
Ondrej Huserka fell into a crevasse on Thursday, after he and his climbing partner ascended the Lantang Lirung mountain in the Himalayas – the 99th-highest peak in the world.
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
After only a dozen feet, the crevasse widened slightly.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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