crevasse

Example Sentences

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Hikes to the top of Mount Cook, which towers over the Southern Alps running the length of the South Island, are difficult even for experienced climbers because of large crevasses and unpredictable weather.

From BBC

Schuppli wove a portion of Sharp’s file into a 24-minute collage of ice recordings she and other researchers had made around the world by climbing into crevasses or sticking hydrophones beneath a glacier’s watery lips.

From New York Times

After so many decades, the conventional route has become too easy, so he likes to veer away from the crowded path to scale massive granite boulders, jumping over crevasses.

From Washington Post

The team tracked the movement of their physical features, like crevasses, over more than a year to assess their ice flow.

From Washington Post

Maybe the rescue team had failed to find him miraculously alive in a crevasse.

From Los Angeles Times