Sentence examples for vertiginous slopes from inspiring English sources

They hurtle down vertiginous slopes and communicate with each other across ravines without raising their voices.

From the age of 10 he was hauling 30kg hay bales up vertiginous slopes to summer grazing.

Whiteface was the site of the downhill skiing in the 1980 Olympics, and as you ascend its vertiginous slopes, it's easy to see why.

The senior school is perched on a grassy plateau outside Chitral with a stunning view – vertiginous slopes and swaying fields of wheat on one side; the white-capped Terech Mir mountain, soaring to 7,700 metres, on the other.

Michelangelo did not merely sleep here; by day, he trudged up and down the vertiginous slopes in search of the perfect stone, and Carrara yielded the marble he used in the David and the Pietà.

NGONG PING 360 The newest ride, a cable car called the Ngong Ping 360 (www.hk360.copened opened last fall and carries tourists, Buddhist monks and pilgrims on a soaring 3.5-mile route over sea and vertiginous slopes to a sprawling Buddhist monastery in the mountainous heart of Lantau Island.

The cruelly vertiginous slope below our feet was dimpled with course flags.

In the most dynamic scene she is perched at the top of a vertiginous slope, trying not to slide down towards the outstretched arms of a drowning crowd.

And then, in the same gallery, we suddenly reach Akbar's court, with a delicately realistic image of the young soon-to-be emperor out hawking with noblemen, crossing a vertiginous slope face of dust-colored rock; bright color is allotted only to the hunters' clothing and steeds.

The price of "primary inputs to...[the] industrial economy" is falling as never before: "Each time, whether it's a new material, a new etching process, a new chip architecture, or an entirely new dimension such as parallel processing, the learning curve starts again at its most vertiginous slope".

Day one was a 12-hour marathon that saw us scrambling up vertiginous ice slopes in crampons, skis tied to our rucksacks, in the freezing darkness.