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
A photogenic patch of Yosemite Valley, with the soaring rock face of El Capitan in the background, had become his personal TV studio.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025
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
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
Two of the largest and oldest sphinxes were at the summit, scratching with their vast forepaws into the rock face, writing.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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