Sentence examples for mountain carving from inspiring English sources

"He felt by having the mountain carving, he could give back some pride.

The latter includes the immortal description of Messrs Hillary and Tenzing as they ascended the planet's highest mountain, "carving steps into the roof of the world".

Standing in a biting winter wind beneath the enormous face — the nose alone is 27 feet long — Casimir Ziolkowski described the mountain carving process as not conducive to shortcuts.

As the mountain carving effort begins its 65th year as one of the top tourist attractions in the state, few family members are deterred by their doubt that any of them will live to see it to completion.

9 & 10 After visiting Mount Rushmore, see the Native American equivalent, the Crazy Horse Memorial (crazyhorsememorial.org), which will be the largest mountain carving in the world when finished, and the Indian Museum of North America. 1 Return to Rapid City.

Rather than climb down, we dropped into the saddle, part of the mountain carved out like a chute, and slid down a glacier for two miles.

But not even he, based on what is known of his life, wanted the side of a mountain carved to depict his face.

The well-known attraction features a mountain carved by sculptor Gutzon Borglum to resemble four former U.S. presidents.

This included a 3 ft (0.91 m) tall mechanical wine server of the early 8th century that was in the shape of an artificial mountain, carved out of iron and rested on a lacquered-wooden tortoise frame.

Quaternary glaciation scoured the mountains, carving them into rugged shapes, and changed valleys from a V- to a U-shaped cross section; river erosion has also been intensive and has left its marks on the landscape.

The diplomacy seemed a world away, and possibly too late, when viewed through the prism of the anti-Assad fighters, who have driven much of the Syrian military forces from certain rural zones in the northern mountains, carving out small but mostly stable areas now under their de facto control, though these areas still face shelling and attack from the air by Mr. Assad's military.