Sentence examples for vertiginous terrain from inspiring English sources

Even radio signals have trouble finding you in Garrison, owing to its rugged, sometimes vertiginous terrain.

In the South American highlands, domesticated llamas and alpacas supplied vital meat and wool as well as serving as pack animals well adapted to the vertiginous terrain.

Blisters are popping like champagne corks, wheelchairs are protesting at the increasingly vertiginous terrain, and the breathy camaraderie that sustained the first leg of the 300km Andean trek has evaporated in a puff of exhaustion.

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.

Both involve hazardous terrain to negotiate, above vertiginous falls to waves pounding on the rocks below.

But for bush pilot Matt Dearden, who flies the rugged and often uncharted terrain of Indonesian New Guinea, landing on muddy ridgelines and vertiginous, hand-dug slopes, Lukla holds no fear.

Walking Milford resembles Frodo's long plod through the Lord of the Rings films (all shot in New Zealand, along with the two Hobbit movies to come), some of it through inviting, pristine, open meadows; some through dense, moss-draped beech forest; some over steep, rocky terrain that strains your desire to carry on; still more offering vertiginous panoramas.

The route begins at 3,320m and rips its way to the village of Allemont through every type of alpine terrain you can envisage: from snow and lunar-like landscapes to rocky ridgelines with vertiginous drops and forest trails where lattice light plays havoc with your vision.

The double-black-diamond Extreme Limits, 548 acres of vertiginous drop-offs, burly rock outcroppings and wasp-waisted chutes, encompasses some of the mountain's best-known terrain; the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships are held here every February.

The effect is vertiginous.

It is a vertiginous moment.