The phrase "alpine ridge" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a high, narrow crest or spine of a mountain range in a cold, snowy region. Example: The climbers reached the summit of the alpine ridge after a challenging ascent, and were rewarded with a breathtaking view of the snow-covered peaks below.
A FLOATING MOUNTAIN of grey and white ice, castellated and crevassed like an Alpine ridge, the iceberg is vast: the size of two aircraft carriers, maybe more.
High atop an Alpine ridge sits a prince in a 130-room castle, in a tiny domain that has made a name for itself by hiding people's money.
To the north, a morning blast of pink and orange brightened snow-shrouded Mount Healy at the edge of the Alaska Range; to the south — where the sun is always rising or setting during winter at a latitude just three degrees shy of the Arctic Circle — an alpine ridge remained covered in shadow and alder.
So we've agreed we'll be back within a year or three, same families, same resort, same chalet, right opposite the sensational Dents du Midi, a stunning Alpine ridge that catches the evening sun and, I suspect, persuades many loyally to return year after year.
During the Medieval and modern periods, human activity increases again as documented by a large number of animal enclosures and by a regional transit route for communication across the passes of the main Alpine ridge.
The Alpine Ticino Verzasca Maggia basin (2627 km2) is located directly to the south of the main Alpine ridge embracing a great part of the drainage area of Lago Maggiore.
This aircraft was seen by eye-witnesses following the doomed airliner as it skimmed the Alpine ridges before crashing into a sheer mountain-side.
In the western Pamirs the relief is high-mountain and sharply disjointed, alternating between low ranges and alpine ridges capped by snow and glaciers; and there are deep, narrow ravines with high, rapid rivers.
High concentrations of ML minerals in the soils on the alpine ridges flanking Kärkevagge indicate in situ chemical weathering.
Each day you'll be walking up to high alpine ridges, but there isn't any need for expensive gear.
Among the glaciers along the mid-Alpine ridge between Italy and Austria, they tote their backpacks from one mountain lodge to another.
