crevasse

Then, an avalanche that sent snow tumbling into the crevasse gave him the first hope he had had in days.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

The dragon will give Mae the flower, but first she must rescue his son, which has fallen down a crevasse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

To Byatt, maternal mental health is not a gap but a crevasse.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2024

He described a near-death plunge into a crevasse when he failed to detect it beneath a blanket of snow.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

I dug my knees into the crusty snow as best I could and threw the end of the rope down the crevasse.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

It is a dangerous and unstable place, "criss-crossed with crevasses", and with slopes of up to 45 degrees, according to the Polish team.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

It’s best known for wide spine-tingling crevasses spanned by flimsy-looking aluminum ladders lashed together with rope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

Their branches grow in wildly unpredictable directions, and the trees’ gray, gnarled trunks are shot through with holes and crevasses large enough to hide a sleeping child.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

Yet for decades, due to the risk of avalanches and hidden snow-lined crevasses, no research expedition had ever been able to reach the peak of Nevado Huascarán to collect these ancient records.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023

Too terrified of crevasses to wander far from camp, I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent—the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright— fighting a rising chorus of doubts.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Looking out over those crevassed hills, with outcroppings of dark rock showing through the yellow grass, I felt that this spontaneous spirit of mercantilism was at the heart of the Silk Road.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

Cons: Because it’s fractured and crevassed, Hynek says it would likely be necessary to land off the glacier and traverse over to it to bring the ice and water back to the astronauts’ habitation module.

From Forbes ● Dec. 9, 2014

Climbers on other teams stepped in to shield Moro and his colleagues, who, spitting blood, packed up their essential gear and fled, taking a dangerous, highly crevassed back route down the mountain.

From Newsweek ● May 2, 2013

That face, a crevassed landscape that suggests sorrow and history, has the granitic grandeur of W. H. Auden in his later life.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011

Here between the volcanoes it is about four miles wide, and should not be hard going farther in towards the center, though it is more crevassed than I had hoped, and the surface rotten.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Diagram illustrating the crevassing of Convex Sides of glacier.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

Thus we see that the crevassing of the eastern side of the glacier is a simple consequence of the quicker motion of that side, and does not, as hitherto supposed, demonstrate its slower motion.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

Diagram illustrating the crevassing of Convex Sides of glacier323 29.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

And see how beautifully these simple principles enable us to account for the remarkable crevassing of the eastern side of the Mer de Glace.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

We also see that a slight curvature in the valley, by throwing an additional strain upon one half of the glacier, produces an augmented crevassing of that side.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John