Sentence examples similar to is crevasse from inspiring English sources

"Everywhere we looked, there were crevasse fields the size of a small parish," Worsley wrote.

The caves are crevasses taller than they are wide, like slits in a medieval fortress, and are, historians believe, one of the places he and about 62 other Black Watch members were taken prisoner.

This is the crevasse that divides Auster from novelists like José Saramago, or the Philip Roth of "The Ghost Writer".

An example of a crevasse is shown in Fig.  3b, where crevasses are partially visible in the vacuole (V) as white stripes perpendicular to the cutting direction (parallel to the NV junction).

Thus, there are longitudinal crevasses, which develop in areas of compressive stress; transverse crevasses, which develop in areas of tensile stress and are generally curved downstream; marginal crevasses, which develop when the central area of the glacier moves considerably faster than the outer edges; and bergschrund crevasses, which form between the cirque and glacier head.

In addition, the volcanic activity modified the surface of the glacier and transformed it from being mostly crevasse-free to being a chaotic jumble of icefalls heavily criss-crossed with crevasses and seracs due to movement of the crater floor and lava dome growth.

It is now a crevasse.

While it may seem suicidal, leaping across a gaping crevasse is actually an extreme sport that is gaining in popularity.

The crevasse is set away from the falls, leaving it in a palpable quiet that invites contemplation.

A bergschrund is a large crevasse that lies a short distance from the exposed rock walls and separates the stationary from the moving ice; in early summer it opens, exposing the rock at its base to diurnal changes of temperature.

On the final day of my walk, I climbed another mountain, but unlike Rocinha, where every crevasse is crammed with humanity, the 844m Pedra da Gávea, two miles to the west, is stark, empty and covered in some of Brazil's last remaining Atlantic rainforest, inside the Tijuca national park.