Sentence examples for steep snow from inspiring English sources

Through the last pass and down a long, steep snow field lie wide stretches of green.

Despite the unforgiving sun, a few, steep snow fields persisted from the winter and we carefully picked our way across, using walking sticks for balance.

Au Vieux Moulin (hotel-restaurant-megeve.com) has doubles from €175, room only The Highlands of Scotland are a challenging walking environment even in summer, but winter expeditions are mountaineering adventures, with icy steps, mixed terrain and traverses across steep snow.

It seemed a good idea at the time, but halfway up this route, with all of the technical difficulties overcome and only the steep snow slopes to climb, I was avalanched.

It involves climbing ice, rock or steep snow in the mountains, usually in very inhospitable conditions using equipment that includes ice axes for hands and crampons for feet.

The three faces of its 22,834-foot summit offer something for everyone: the sheer walls of the South Face are for experts only; the Polish Glacier on the eastern side is a good intermediate route; and the Ruta Normal that zigzags up the North Face is essentially a scree stroll topped by the notorious Canaleta, a steep snow and ice ramp that twists to the summit.

Looming over the ship are steep, snow-covered cliffs.

On either side, steep, snow-covered slopes disappeared into thin air, and I gripped my walking stick tighter.

Under a bluebird sky and with frozen sand crunching under their feet, they reveled in the steep, snow-capped ridges that climbed from the shores.

On visiting the Eagle's Nest with correspondent Dorothy Thompson, they had to climb four hundred feet up a steep snow-patched pathway.

Ravens in Alaska and Northern Canada are known to slide down steep, snow-covered roofs.