Sentence examples for cliff of ice from inspiring English sources
This is a flat, tabular iceberg and I would say the visible white cliff of ice is around 150ft tall.
On day three, after about 60km of riding, we crossed the 3,900m-high 3,900m-high where a sheer cliff of ice and snow gave way Tosornarrow corridor with the shimmering Kerege-Tash Valley below.
Cliffs of ice lined the lonely, violent shore.
Stop frequently to gawp at the breathtaking landscapes of 4,000-metre 4,000-metre snowfields and séracs (tumbling cliffs of ice).
This would leave towering cliffs of ice exposed to the sea, which could make them vulnerable to rapid collapse.
On a Buddhist pilgrimage, Zhang describes mountains that "rose and fell like furious waves" and "great waves like moving mountains, cliffs of ice and boulders of snow".
They sunk in snow up to their waists and inched along cliffs of ice looking for passes through the mountains.
Encircled by sheer, 150-foot cliffs of ice, the ice tongue measures 15 miles in width and more than 30 miles in length from where it leaves the mountain front and enters the Ross Sea.
One controversial suggestion is to install a ladder on the famous "Hillary step", a cliff of rock and ice which is the last obstacle before the summit when the mountain is climbed by the usual South Col route.
It was a shattered ice cliff with massive blocks of ice and rock that swept through the centre of base camp.
According to footage from the accident, and accounts of those who arrived on the scene in its immediate aftermath, there was fresh debris from a fallen section of ice cliff close to a large scoured area of wind slab avalanche, which had been deposited by high winds in the previous few days, leading to speculation that falling ice had triggered the slide.
