Sentence examples for wide crevasse from inspiring English sources

If you reach a wide crevasse when you're climbing a mountain, you have but one choice: Turn around.

My wife discovered a 2ft wide crevasse that worked a cool water massage into her back and, more accidently, a chute we rode by leaning way back and letting the water pick us up.

A 165-foot-wide crevasse has opened up on a ranch in Wyoming, transforming the land in the Bighorn Mountains into a sprawling canyon almost overnight, UPI reports.

14 Dec: Ninnis, the six best dogs, almost all of the food and the bulk of their most important equipment - including their tent - are lost down a crevasse 11ft wide and 150ft deep.

Sections of aluminum ladder are employed to span crevasses too wide to safely step across.

Some of the crevasses were "wide enough to swallow a car," as Worsley put it.

Hough pointed out the (invisible) Continental Divide; Pinnacle Peak, which bore an uncanny resemblance to the Matterhorn; and the Kaskawalsh, South Arm and Lowell Glaciers, riddled with crevasses 1km wide at their thickest points.

In his diary that night, Mertz recounted: Ninnis, his sledge and dog team had fallen through a crevasse 11 feet wide with straight, ice walls.

The caves are crevasses taller than they are wide, like slits in a medieval fortress, and are, historians believe, one of the places he and about 62 other Black Watch members were taken prisoner.

Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling suggests that this evolution initially increased the discharge of flow and sediment through the crevasse as the channel became wider and deeper and altered its orientation relative to the main river flow direction.

The three men slid 2000 feet, dodging crevasses up to 200 feet wide, and ending their descent by overturning on an ice ridge.