A major concern was the ability of the horses to negotiate the tricky footing and steep heights of Tampe La together with the added peril of snow cover.
The face of a shallow-water wave like the one at Jaws is spectacularly steep, and its height is thus reasonably easy to figure.
Along the coast steep cliffs with heights of 25 100 m are often present (Uhlig 1980; Haryono and Day 2004).
The velocity profiles become steeper with increasing height in the column and with increasing gas flow rate.
In young stands it is particularly difficult to determine site index because top-height curves are very close and steep, so that small height or age measurement errors can lead to large errors in site index (Sterba et al., 1990).
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least nine climbers were reported dead on Sunday on K-2, the world's second highest mountain, after an avalanche struck them on a steep gully at a height of nearly 27,000 feet, just below the summit.
I drove on past the station, following the steep hill, hoping some height would connect me to the rest of the world.
In the blaze, called the Thirty Mile Fire after a landmark near where it started, federal employees found themselves trapped by a fire that had blown up, in very steep terrain, at the height of a drought.
At about 6 15 GMT on Saturday, two helicopter crews finally surveyed the crash site from the air and discovered that the aircraft wreckage is on a very steep slope at a height of 3900 meters.
Mouth breathing leads to a lower tongue position in the oral cavity that will alter the force balance from the cheeks and tongue, which may be associated with an increased anterior face height, a steep mandibular plane angle resulting in a retrognathic mandible.
