Sentence examples for crevasse at from inspiring English sources

The shadow in the stony crevasse at the far right of the canvas is also a silhouetted image of a French gendarme pointing up toward the mountain.

Babu Chhiri was guiding a team of mountaineers when he slipped and fell 100 feet into a crevasse at Camp 2, at 20,400 feet.

Cremaster 2 sees the production values take another leap forward and there are some stunning images here, not least the camera speeding over the Columbia Ice Fields and disappearing down a crevasse at the end.

Rescuers already on the ground could be seen running toward the wreckage, momentarily interrupting their search for the climbers, who had fallen into a crevasse at least 25 feet deep.

In the mountains, Mr. Sherpa can spend months trekking over glaciers and negotiating ice falls and treacherous crevasses at nosebleed heights.

Crevasses deepen until the rate of surface stretching is counterbalanced by the rate of plastic flow tending to close the crevasses at depth.

It wasn't easy to imagine him now, with his skewed stride, crossing glacial snow and skirting crevasses at high altitude.

The views were remarkable: the village's toy houses far below, the giant glacial seracs and crevasses at eye level, the vast expanse of the Bernese and Italian Alps on opposite horizons.

(b) Change in the location of crevasses at the tip of the oval feature, indicating that the spacing between crevasses may have increased.

Furthermore, we interpreted that the occurrence of a fault in the subglacial topography may have led to the initiation of ice fractures and a subsequent concentration of crevasses at the end of the feather-shaped feature.

Because of differences in sensitivity to the tension along the direction of movement shown in Fig. 8, the crevasses at the feather-shaped feature are likely to open and move more easily than those at the oval feature, resulting in large increase rates.