rock face

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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 team continued searching in a pool below a sheer rock face.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

A hiker posted a video that showed the flow of water from Yuntai Mountain Waterfall - billed as China's tallest uninterrupted waterfall - was coming from a pipe built high into the rock face.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 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

Irian approached the rock face and ran careful fingers along it.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell