Sentence examples for avalanche peak from inspiring English sources

I drove through Arthur's Pass recently, and stopped to climb Avalanche Peak for the first time in several years.

As a child I didn't really comprehend my father's affection for the land, nor for the steep-sided alp to which he returns as to an altar: Avalanche Peak, a six-hour ascent above the cloud-filled valley of the pass.

Using exponentially increasing bin sizes filters out statistical fluctuations in the tail and also resolves the fast changing avalanche peak.

Climbing Avalanche Peak (6,013 ft) feels like hiking out of the Grand Canyon, only the shifting strata are plants, not rock.

The Avalanche Peak hike is perhaps the most dramatic way to experience this phenomenon, as it climbs this height, and descends it again, in a stretch of only 4.5 miles.

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So a team of researchers devised a hands-off way to monitor avalanche-prone peaks on Weissfluhjoch mountain near Davos, Switzerland.

The next morning, after wolfing down a breakfast of French toast and oatmeal, we drove another four miles to the end of Mineral King Road, where our reward was a glistening meadow with open vistas of avalanche-scoured peaks.

In 1981, Chouinard and Ridgeway were part of a team that was caught in an avalanche on a peak called Gongga Shan, in China.

As this Christmas's merchandising avalanche marks the peak, surely, of Frozenmania, I understand why some of my fellow parents are thoroughly sick of the whole thing.

This March, meanwhile, already has seen one recorded fatality: a backcountry skier who was caught in an avalanche at Conejos Peak, Colorado.