Sentence examples for vertiginous ridge from inspiring English sources
I almost had to pry her off the sled, the vertiginous ridge all but distracting her from jaw-dropping views of three distinct mountain ranges -- the 14,000-foot New York, Ten-Mile and Gore ranges -- turning orange and purple in the late-afternoon light.
"It's also not in a robust, vertiginous rise.
Cans of Austral beer, made in Punta Arenas, depict a section called Los Cuernos (the horns), which is unlike any mountain I've ever seen: a ravishing, impossibly vertiginous two-tone arrangement of ridges, ramparts, fins, folds, spikes and spires.
Arriving at this retreat is a lot like reaching an island after crossing rough seas, except that instead of braving waves, my fellow guests held on as the "stage" (a four-wheel-drive van that picked us up in Jamesburg, 14 miles from our destination) rode the extremely bumpy, vertiginous, unpaved route over a mountain ridge.
'We smuggled coffee from behind Mabugu ridge down to the Kenyan border,' says Nimrod Wambette, our guide on the vertiginous hike to the old smuggler's trail.
As the funicular glides to a halt at 2,663m on the Weissfluhjoch ridge, I follow a pair of mountain bikers out into the thin air, heading for a vertiginous platform that looks north towards Klosters across the shoulder of the Todalp mountain.
The effect is vertiginous.
It is a vertiginous moment.
Adrenaline peak A winter classic such as the Aonach Eagach ridge above Glencoe provides a constant low-level adrenaline flow from the moment you step on to the ridge until, two totally committed miles later, your cramponed boots move on to less vertiginous terrain.
