Sentence examples for sheer ridge from inspiring English sources

The setting is a sheer ridge, with cliffs seemingly dropping off in all directions.

Two hours later, we reached the sheer ridge that separated us from the summit.

Keiko's living quarters were splendid, but everything had to be done by boat, since the land that formed the bay around him was a sheer ridge of petrified lava.

Granville is divided into the sombre fortified Upper Town (Ville Haute), high on a rocky ridge rising sheer from the sea, and the newer Lower Town (Ville Basse).

Along the way, somewhere out in the darkness, on either side of a narrow ridge, are sheer drops of between 2,500 and 3,500 metres.

In between are enough glaciated ridges and sheer drops to make you wonder why you didn't just stay home.

With the ridge on one side and sheer drop of varying distances on the other, it was challenging psychologically as well as physically.

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

The Atlantic Ocean lies to the north and west, while Table Mountain rises a sheer 1,086m to the south, with the ridges of Signal Hill and Lion's Head providing a dramatic skyline in the midst of the city.

The trail extends, for the adventurous, into a five-day circuit along the Holy Ridge, a narrow craggy ridgeline with sheer drops of 1,000m on both sides.

It's wet and windy at sea level and there is always snow on the ridges of the 2,000m-high 2,000m-highrise sheer and straight from the northern Atlantic.