Sentence examples for sheer mountains from inspiring English sources

You grasp for adjectives to describe what you're witnessing in Antarctica as sheer mountains suddenly come into view, plunging straight into the sea.

(Hauke on his white horse, gazing at the sea: "Where was the other shore? He stood there face to face with sheer mountains of water").

One of Europe's largest countries, Germany encompasses a wide variety of landscapes: the tall, sheer mountains of the south; the sandy, rolling plains of the north; the forested hills of the urbanized west; and the plains of the agricultural east.

Horse riding is offered to guests (beginners to advanced) for around £39 for a 90-minute tour and, set among the mossy northern plains and sheer mountains, is a wonderful experience.

On gazing at the Gippsland plain with its kangaroos and wild swans, encircled by sheer mountains, plunging gorges, a forest of thorns and a roiling sea, McMillan saw in it "a country capable of supporting all my starving countrymen" and promptly christened it "Caledonia Australis" (it was later renamed after the governor of New South Wales, George Gipps).

The Epirot capital is the gateway to the Vikos-Aoös National Park, and faces sheer mountains.

Waterfalls tumble from the sheer mountain faces.

The team will try to drive the 48 miles west through sheer mountain passes, which they fear may be blocked.

This aircraft was seen by eye-witnesses following the doomed airliner as it skimmed the Alpine ridges before crashing into a sheer mountain-side.

More important than ripping a hole in the front gate, the attack punctured a belief that the war existed only somewhere else, far from these sheer mountain valleys.

Already set in the West, Raoul Walsh's late gangster picture "High Sierra" (1941) stars Humphrey Bogart as a recently released career criminal recruited for one last job, ending with a doomed retreat up a sheer mountain face.