(n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
(n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mount Everest's Hillary Step is still there, say Nepalese climbers Read more Kumar’s body was spotted on Monday deep inside a 200-metre crevasse well into the “death zone”, where oxygen levels plummet and the risk of altitude sickness is high.
(2) Soluble receptor--3H-steroid complex (cytosol or nuclear extract) is adsorbed quantitatively within the crevasses of porous glass beads.
(3) For every journey a climber makes through this labyrinth of ice cliffs and crevasses, the sherpas who keep their clients supplied have to make as many as 10.
(4) The route that is laid anew each year through the icefall, one of the most dangerous passages though low down the peak, has been largely destroyed and local Sherpa guides who specialise in preparing a path through the jumble of ice blocks and crevasses are reported to have refused to repair it.
(5) After Hinkes broke his arm in 2000 falling into a crevasse while climbing Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, some climbers speculated that he would call it a day.
(6) To eliminate that from the search – assuming we don’t find the aircraft – we have the cover the whole area.” The complexities surrounding the search are immense: the area is six days’ sail from the nearest shore and previously unmapped, with water depths of up to 6,000m and underwater mountains, crevasses and 2,000m sheer drops.
(7) (2) A victim was discovered in the lower ablation area 8 years after falling down a crevasse in the middle part of the ablation area.
(8) While a paying climber might travel through the treacherous icefall – a constantly moving, creaking, crevasse-riddled outflow of the Khumbu glacier – as few as four times, Sherpa climbers might make 30 or 40 journeys, carrying loads of oxygen, tents, food, water and fuel to the higher camps, a system that has evolved in the commercial era to give people who might not be the strongest, or the most experienced, the best chance of making it to the top.
(9) Along with an interactive diorama-style Everest that lets you peer into all its nooks and crevasses, there are also interactive areas at famous parts of the climb.
(10) I was responsible for the appalling daily press conferences during that election, when all the press sought was a wafer of difference between the two: they often found a crevasse, even between those similar parties.
(11) Nepal quake: Everest base camp 'looked like it had been flattened by bomb' Read more These are the icefall doctors, a team of elite local guides charged with securing a route to allow largely foreign climbers to pass safely through the maze of deep crevasses and frozen cliffs formed as the Khumbu glacier moves down from Mount Everest towards the valleys below in Nepal.
(12) The avalanche struck a perilous passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and piled with serac – huge chunks of ice – that can break free without warning.
(13) In other words, having slowly dug itself down to the bottom of a hole, the entire economy then fell into a crevasse.
(14) Epithelial junctions demonstrated furrows, clefts or deep crevasses, with exudates containing a large number of leukocytes.
(15) It is suggested that these processes combine to form a system of helical cracks, grooves, or crevasses.
(16) But this stretch feels like real adventure, crossing the snowy glacier, avoiding crevasses, seeing one of the most astonishing mountain panoramas in the world: Monte Rosa, Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Breithorn and hundreds more peaks surround us.
(17) According to reports from climbers at Everest base camp three helicopters were running shuttles into the camps in the Western Cwm above the ice fall – a jumble of ice cliffs and crevasses - where the usual climbing route, equipped with ropes and ladders, was badly damaged by Saturday’s earthquake.
(18) If you reach that point in spite of reluctant soldiers and eager terrorists, it might be physically impossible to get on to the glacier, which will be extremely crevassed and dangerous.
(19) During her time there, she did no harm to her image by abseiling down a crevasse while on a foreign office trip to Antarctica.
(20) "We were running with no ropes on and there are a ton of huge crevasses there.
Precipice
Definition:
(n.) A sudden or headlong fall.
(n.) A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
(2) In a day of unremitting gloom, and yet more market turbulence, the Greek government also stood on the precipice of collapse, risking an uncontrolled default, as the government of George Papandreou faced a late-night confidence vote in parliament.
(3) They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us."
(4) "We may not be looking over the precipice as we were last autumn, but what we are likely to see is a long, slow reduction in the standard of living in this country.
(5) If parties want to try – and I believe they do want to move to a de-escalation – I think there are sets of choices that are available,” he said, expressing hope that “we can seize this moment and pull back from the precipice”.
(6) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.
(7) Filled with classic British gangster-movie iconography – hard London faces hung upside-down from meathooks, the stock-car pile-up – The Long Good Friday is also a grownup, despairing look at Britain on the edge of an economic and political precipice.
(8) Peg Johnston, the owner, finds herself facing this precipice every year.
(9) However, while a government shutdown is off the table, the spectre of the kind of political brinkmanship that took the US to the precipice of an economic crisis in October has not been entirely averted.
(10) As its population ages, China is racing toward a “demographic precipice,” says Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine.
(11) "But it's at a precipice where it needs to jump to the next level of evolution."
(12) There is a palpable feeling in the country that the ruling junta has run out of ground, teetering on the precipice and threatening to take the country with it.
(13) But by voting, First Nations can return their communities from the precipice.
(14) For Abbott, on the precipice of fulfilling his destiny in politics, it would have seemed like collegiality, not outright soul-selling, to become a man for Peta and for Brian down in party headquarters, a man for the colleagues, a man for the Liberal party base, a man for Rupert and for Alan Jones and for Ray Hadley (when Scott Morrison wasn’t available) – a man who would validate the various irrationalisms of the wireless ranters and the white male columnists in Rupert’s employ – young and older fogeys who cherish past certainties, and who feel just as ambivalent about the future as Abbott himself feels.
(15) IFS inequality chart IFS warns of biggest squeeze on pay for 70 years over Brexit Read more “These troubling forecasts show millions of families across the country are teetering on a precipice, with 400,000 pensioners and over one million more children likely to fall into poverty and suffer the very real and awful consequences that brings if things do not change.
(16) With the NFL’s first openly gay player about to join the workplace environment, the League stands on the precipice of a new era, where a culture of respect won’t just be promoted, but will be strictly enforced.
(17) More generally, relations with the US and Europe spiralled, with the values gap ever bigger and the rhetoric on both sides ever more spiky, while still refraining from going entirely over the precipice.
(18) The prospect of protracted political instability has stoked fears that Greece is not just teetering on a political precipice but also laying the ground, however unwittingly, for its own euro exit.
(19) This time, people saw they were at the edge of a precipice and they reacted.” He said of his absolute majority in parliament elections this week , that cemented the collapse of the decades-old traditional French parties, as well as being seen abroad as holding back populism: “My election, and my majority in parliament are not the end of something: they are a challenging beginning.
(20) Since neither the men nor the animals could be sure of their footing on account of the snow, any who stepped wide of the path or stumbled, overbalanced and fell down the precipices.” At length they reached a spot where the path suddenly seemed impassable, as Livy describes it: “A narrow cliff falling away so sheer that even a light-armed soldier could hardly have got down it by feeling his way and clinging to such bushes and stumps as presented themselves.” “The track was too narrow for the elephants or even the pack animals to pass,” writes Polybius.