Sentence examples for steep rock face from inspiring English sources

There he sustains himself by hunting for eggs on a steep rock face.

I remember watching four men and women climbing a steep rock face and rappelling down.

Its half-cup nest is attached to a steep rock face, generally in a shady, damp location.

But halfway up a steep rock face, he spies a butterfly he doesn't recognize and swings his net single-mindedly.

By midafternoon, we find ourselves at the base of a steep rock face, which at first doesn't seem to have any promising routes around it.

For all the talk of an open environment, however, it seems that, in this chapter at least, the player's route is unsubtly funnelled towards key choke points: a rickety bridge provides an amusing dramatic moment and later there's the tense circumnavigation of a steep rock face beside a waterfall – neither of which you can avoid.

The restoration of steep rock faces with shrubs and trees is difficult due to extreme microclimatic and edaphic conditions.

The resulting landforms include jagged, saw-edged ridges, rocky pinnacles, screes (pebble deposits) of limestone debris, deep gorges, and numerous steep rock faces at relatively low levels.

Another fairly difficult climb, the 3.7-mile trail leads to three idyllic lakes, Blanche, Lillian and Florence, nestled among steep rock faces formed by glaciers.

The combination of sufficient rock strength to support steep rock faces and the presence of discontinuities which, preferentially eroded, turn to 'streets' and 'squares' in the rock cities, appears as the basic prerequisite.

The Dolomites derive their remarkable form from the erosion of the light-colored limestone peculiar to the region; hence the peaks as strangely contorted as wet sand dribbled into a pile, the deep gorges, the steep rock faces at fairly low levels, and the large deposits of limestone debris.