crevasses

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There’s a point being made there: His wrinkles and crevasses echo the landscape, which has also been shaped by time and forces of nature.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

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

Satellite images even show the surface crevasses that opened directly above the keel as a result of the violent collision with the sea-floor.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2023

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 the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer