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His treatment of the Troll Wall in Norway, Europe’s highest rock face and the cliff Sasha is scaling when the film commences, is a hallucination that turns the world upside down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

The new specialist netting will help prevent loose stones falling from a fragile rock face measuring 10m high and 100m long above the railway.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2024

In 1972, the community of Naters blasted a path into a steep rock face to offer the herders and sheep an alternative way home.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

In recent years, blind athletes have run astonishingly fast marathons, scaled the towering sheer rock face of Yosemite’s El Capitan and climbed the “Seven Summits,” the highest peaks on each continent.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

I gestured to Mo, mimicking a crawl close to the rock face.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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