sheer drop

Thom Yorke sings about driving along a curvy Italian mountain road with a sheer drop, and “letting go of the wheel”; Jonny Greenwood’s string arrangement envisions the plunge, and then electric guitars careen to a finish.

Outside Sacele, the icy track narrows to the width of a car as it climbs towards the villa, a sheer drop on one side.

While it’s mostly a sheer drop from the U.N. grounds to the water, there’s a Coast Guard cutter capable of breaking ice that’s moored at a makeshift dock.

On the other side was a sheer drop.

The glacier straddles the ridge between two mountains, creating a gushing waterfall with a sheer drop into the lagoon below.