At dawn, they began their attack up a steep and at times near sheer slope and were successfully able to overwhelm the Italians defending the ledge, capturing 60 prisoners.
You'll scramble a couple hundred feet up a sheer scree slope and then choke on your heart as your handhold crumbles and you begin to slide back down.
A1 OBITUARIES B7 Pete Schoening A mountaineering legend who once saved a rope team of six men by single-handedly holding their weight on the sheer slope of K2, the world's second-highest peak, he was 77.
Now they are a shambles.This week rescue workers continued to dig in the wreckage after violent summer storms dumped more than a month's worth of rain on the sheer slopes of Rio's serra in hours, unleashing what officials have called a "tsunami" of mud.
In Khapi, a village two hours' drive from La Paz, people regard the Illimani glacier as "our God, our great protector," said Mario Ariquipa Laso, 55, a wizened farmer who grows potatoes and corn on sheer slopes in the shadow of the glacier.
The village is in a valley at the heart of the Bernese Oberland, surrounded by smooth, sheer slopes.
Pulling back the curtains of my hotel room window, I gazed out at the sheer slopes of Mount Etna.
The rest of the day is spent traversing the sheer breadth of wine styles produced by the Douro's sheer slopes.
"It is very inaccessible, extremely steep, difficult to operate in because of the sheer slopes, the altitude, and the selection of landing sites," said Colonel Pease, who flew out on the operation with the troops.
There are boulders and sheer slopes that could upset the lander.
The site they have chosen is absurdly beautiful, in a tiny copse of trees on the sheerest slope of my mountain, looking out across the valley at the hills beyond.
