rock face
Example Sentences
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According to reports in the Austrian media, the court heard how the mountain rescue team found Kerstin's body hanging upside down from a rock face.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
He starred in the Oscar-winning documentary film “Free Solo,” which captured his record-setting 2017 no-ropes ascent of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot sheer rock face.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
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
He had come through a few body-lengths of darkness and was looking out the south side of the rock face.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
