Sentence examples for long gorge from inspiring English sources

A creek descends 600 feet (183 metres) through the 1.5-mile- (2-km) long gorge, forming rapids, pools, and cascades.

The raft flipped, and I zoomed downwater through a long gorge with one rapid after the other.

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass.

Wallenda, 34, crossed the quarter of a mile long gorge by walking across two-inch thick steel cable sitting 1,500 feet above the river, without wearing a harness.

The river first flows almost due south between Ingleborough Mountain (2,373 feet [723 m]) and Pen-y-Ghent (2,273 feet [693 m]) and then through open country, a long gorge, and a wide valley (devoted mostly to pastoral farming) until it is joined by its two main tributaries, the Hodder from the north and the Calder.

The Avon Gorge is a 1.5-mile (2.5-kilometre) long gorge on the River Avon in Bristol, England.

A fantastic feature of Slovakia's Pieniny National Park is the 10km-long gorge.

A soaring, 370-mile-long gorge carpeted with thick forests, the area is home to roughly half of China's animal species, many of them endangered, including the snow leopard, the black snub-nosed monkey and the red panda.

Situated around 60km west of the historic city of Lijiang, the 15km-long gorge carves its way through steep-sided and snow-capped Himalayan peaks that line up like a rugged roll-call of nature's tough guys.

On the final morning, we entered an eight-mile-long gorge, the vertical walls pressing together until the sky above became a memory.

At last the mile long Siq gorge opened onto a magical sight: an immense tomb (al-Khazneh, Treasury) hewn into the sheer face of the rock.