Sentence examples for a steep gully from inspiring English sources

Riders will climb over hilly terrain and drop down a steep gully in a rugged race that features many spills and blowouts.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least nine climbers were reported dead on Sunday on K-2, the world's second highest mountain, after an avalanche struck them on a steep gully at a height of nearly 27,000 feet, just below the summit.

The disaster took place after a huge serac broke and fell, sweeping away several climbers and stranding as many as a dozen mountaineers above a steep gully without ropes at a height of about 27,000 feet, not far from the summit.

Others were still missing after the huge serac broke and fell, sweeping away several climbers and stranding as many as a dozen mountaineers above a steep gully without ropes at a height of about 27,000 feet, not far from the summit.

In 1996 a guide had pointed out panda droppings to me during a hike in the Hero Valley, a steep gully that follows a tumbling river upward for a couple hours and then tracks a ridge into deep pine forests, but the trail head (marked on maps for sale at the breeding center) was a 40-minute taxi ride away.

We rattle and bang down a steep gully into a silt bed.

Then, right near the summit, climbers have to ascend a steep ice gully called the Bottleneck and cross a horizontal ice face named the Traverse.

By the light of head torches, in the middle of bear country, we fought our way through a steep, scrubby gully, Buster tying us together so if one should slip the other would arrest the fall.

The steep gully heads and vertical side walls developed in marl catchments in the Guadalentin basin are qualitatively well-represented by the model.

This caused the weathered granite above the major sheeting joint to easily erode away, and the volume of the debris flow became larger and the debris flow increased in magnitude and kinetic energy as it flowed down the steep gully.

The wreck was found at (30 nautical miles east of Moreton Island, and less than 1 nautical mile from Rippon's coordinates), resting 2059 m below sea level in a steep-walled gully, 150 m wide and 90 m deep.