rock face
Example Sentences
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El Capitan, with its 3,000-foot-tall rock face, isn’t one of the areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Mr Harris was found on Wednesday under snow at the foot of a rock face on Carè Alto mountain near Trento.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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
There was only room for them to land one at a time, and then the African riflemen had to make their way down the rock face.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
