Sentence examples for crevasse a from inspiring English sources

He was swept into a crevasse, a deep crack in a glacier.

There was also a disturbing encounter with a crevasse — a snow bridge gave way, and I fell in.

A place where water broke through was known as a crevasse — a source of terror no less effective than a bursting dam — and the big ones were memorialized, like other great disasters, in a series of proper names: the Macarty Crevasse (1816), the Sauvé Crevasse (1849).

IT takes planning, strength and guts to venture through a sheer terrain of snow and ice so treacherous that, if you find yourself suddenly sliding down the side of a mountain or into a crevasse, a metal weaponlike tool that may have as many as three sharp points could save your life.

The dangers of Denali though proved to be even more acute, with Richard falling into a crevasse - a ledge seven metres down prevented a fall into an unchartered abyss.

We all crave a heavenly crevasse, a getaway sleigh to some hideaway; a smooth Spielberg-ian E.T. bicycle ride up into the sky.

With great ingenuity, he created Kayak's archly cruel rejection slips: Victorian engravings depicting a beheading, or a mountain climber slipping into a crevasse, with a brush-off caption appended.

A German tourist has been rescued after slipping "a long, long way" into a crevasse on a remote New Zealand glacier, search teams say.

Harrison, an Oxford graduate, volunteered for the stunts, first "pretending" to fall down a crevasse in a glacier, then later to fall again, this time during a climb.

Or it can take you into the throat of a crevasse in a split second".

I suddenly felt hollow in my chest, like Time had carved a crevasse with a spoon.