Sentence examples for perpendicular cliff from inspiring English sources

The water flows over a high perpendicular cliff and plunges several hundred feet into Geiranger Fjord below.

Its northern and eastern parts were composed of the Antrim Mountains, an ancient basalt plateau of moorland and peat bogs cut by deep glens, ending at its northeastern corner in Fair Head (635 feet [194 m]), a perpendicular cliff.

Out of school, his childhood was spent by himself in the woods throwing stones at a tree (two hits, he would be a poet), or testing how far he could climb up a perpendicular cliff.

I'm flat on my belly, atop a perpendicular cliff, 280 feet above a gaping void, in the wilds of north-eastern Brazil, inching forward like a demented caterpillar, ever closer to my personal Armageddon, my every limb tingling with vertigo, just to catch a glimpse, far below, of the crashing finale of a dramatic waterfall, otherwise hidden from view in any sane human posture.

Highlight of the second sublime week was the footage of ibex clinging with insouciance to perpendicular cliffs.

Perpendicular cliffs rise 1,600 to 2,300 feet (490 to 700 metres) on the eastern, northern, and western sides of the island.

In his book "Scrambles Amongst the Alps," Whymper described the view from the top: 'There were the most rugged forms, and the most graceful outlines -- bold, perpendicular cliffs, and gentle, undulating slopes; rocky mountains and snowy mountains, somber and solemn, or glittering and white, with walls -- turrets -- pinnacles -- pyramids -- domes -- cones -- and spires!

Their solution: these astonishing zigzags carved out of the almost perpendicular cliffs of La Nariz del Diablo (The Devil's Nose), a one-hour ascent that really gets the blood pumping (even though, sadly, riding on the train roof is no longer allowed).

Passengers then traverse the nearly perpendicular cliffs of Chino Canyon and five biomes to reach Mountain Station.

In the volcanic Auvergne region of central France, Château du Sailhant looms over 100-foot perpendicular cliffs.

On 14 April the boats lay off the south-east coast of Elephant Island, but could not land here, since the shore consisted of perpendicular cliffs and glaciers.