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crevasse

[kruh-vas] / krəˈvæs /
NOUN
precipice
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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

He has now been formally identified as Dennis "Tink" Bell, who fell into a crevasse aged 25 when working for the organisation that became the British Antarctic Survey.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2025

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

From Salon Sep. 10, 2024

Honnold wants to continue even as they approach the center of a crevasse field, where giant cracks in the surface, some hundreds of feet deep, are hard to spot until they’re nearly underfoot.

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2024

There was a crevasse stretching right in front of me.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

The teams also used "3D photogrammetry and real-time drone surveys to map the Khumbu Icefall and assess hazards like seracs and crevasses", he said.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

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

As they descended, they found themselves in an area riddled with crevasses and realized they were on a glacier.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

We had spent all day struggling and backtracking in the cut-up, crevassed area east of the Fire-Hills; We were tired that evening but elated, sure that a clear course would soon open out ahead.

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

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

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

But the measurement of the foregoing three lines shows that this cannot be the true cause of the crevassing.

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

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




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