Sentence examples for vertical rock face from inspiring English sources

SCALING a vertical rock face may not require superhero powers, but most first-time climbers come away convinced the sport requires Hulk-size forearms.

The 650-foot climb from the parking lot followed a short but casually harrowing trail that required clinging to a wire guideline while crossing a nearly vertical rock face.

2 Cape Town beaches - most popular are Clifton and Camps Bay. 3 Table Mountain cable car - an intense five minutes rotating slowly upwards past vertical rock face and views of greater Cape Town. 4 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens - more than 5,000 plant species in gardens sprawling over the lower slopes of Table Mountain.

Before you reach Edelweiss, you come to a sheer vertical rock face.

It took almost two hours to lug our heavy guns up the half-mile of nearly vertical rock face.

A modest uphill scrabble offers us a view of the hugest and most demanding – the great black flank that is the Trollveggen (Troll Wall) – at 1,100 metres, the tallest vertical rock face in Europe.

The free-climber Alex Honnold goes all in when he climbs vertical rock faces without a rope.

It has the ability to inflate itself when under attack and can climb vertical rock faces.

Runswick Bay and Staithes are both accessed by asphalted vertical rock faces.

Some are adept rock climbers, reportedly able to scale vertical rock faces and even walk upside down under rock ledges.

Apart from on the downhills, obviously, where it is the same madness as usual, spaghetti hairpins, vertical rock faces and sheer drop-offs notwithstanding.