| King Makareus' soldiers entered the earthen halls of the pass of Pindae in the crevasse of the great towers of stone. |
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| As we negotiated our way through icefalls and crevasse fields, I experienced feelings of awe and wonder instead of terror and dread. |
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| His ivorine eye-shields stuck to his nose-bridge, and along the snow-banks he found a crevasse. |
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| For all we knew it could well have carried on getting steeper, ending at an icefall or in a crevasse field. |
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| Incredibly, he survived, making his way from the crevasse on to the glacier and then crawling all the way back to base camp. |
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| This expansion of the compressed river of ice causes crevasse fields to develop. |
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| Crunching over the top of a ridge, we drop into a large bowl where rivulets of water gather to form a torrent that plunges into a crevasse. |
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| We are all looking forward to going into the base of the icefall tomorrow to try our luck on the crevasse ladders. |
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| In addition to carrying the necessary hardware, each climber should have prior practice, knowledge and a plan for crevasse rescue. |
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| Also visible is a descending trench not unlike the columnated crevasse located on the Face's upper eastern half. |
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| At one stage our sledges went over a small crevasse, the runners gliding silently over a snow-covered gap that opened up underneath it. |
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| Cut loose, he has plummeted into a deep crevasse, where against all odds he lands on a fragile ledge and survives. |
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| When my wits returned, I was sprawled out full length on the snow with one leg dangling over the side of an open crevasse. |
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| The compressed blue ice which is visible deep inside an Alpine crevasse will have fallen as snow several decades earlier. |
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| See how Brussels shoots its tendrils into every crevasse, every nook of national life. |
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| According to early reports, the rotor blade of the helicopter hit the rugged vertical surface of a crevasse over a remote glacier in the northern part of the province. |
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| With the crawling, for instance, Bradey had been on top of a snow bridge that crossed a crevasse. |
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| Sediment escaping from the channel during overbank flooding builds levees bordering the channel, and sheets of sand spread from the channels as crevasse splays. |
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| In 1985, during the ascent of a remote peak in the Peruvian Andes, Mr Simpson fell into a crevasse. |
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| Thus, crevasse depths are a function of the rate of stretching and the temperature of the ice. |
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| After treatment, it is evacuated through a crevasse underneath the building. |
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| The aircraft eventually came into contact with the lip of an open crevasse, then with a large drift of compacted snow. |
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| It will be stored in a bergschrund, a natural crevasse between rock and ice. |
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| This causes many a crevasse of misunderstanding between citizens and those who act for them in government. |
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| When a crevasse of misunderstanding separates an individual and those in authority it causes unhappiness. |
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| On one side of the crevasse is a glass projection screen, while on the other side real ice is melting. |
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| Two glass icebergs 4 metres high and separated by a crevasse evoke the polar region. |
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| Deeper, deeper, we follow the crevasse until it opens onto a coral wall. |
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| Others had the chance to descend into a crevasse on a rope ladder, and see first hand what it's like inside one of those virtually bottomless icy chasms. |
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| This time it's like crossing a widening crevasse in a glacier. |
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| At one point he fell down a crevasse and was left dangling in the abyss from a rope, up which he dragged his disintegrating body. |
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| Some days, she felt as though glaciers were buckling around her and a crevasse yawned beneath her. |
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| On 1 January 1992, the day on which I survived falling into a crevasse and being almost buried in an avalanche, my tears had fallen onto the rocks and snow. |
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| The technical for each individual as well as for a group includes crampons, a harness, an ice pick, an A. R. V. A., a shovel, a probe, a rope and the material necessary for rescue out of a crevasse. |
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| The main rotor broke, and the helicopter careened into the ice wall of a perpendicular crevasse, broke apart, caught fire, and tumbled into the crevasse. |
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| We could cryosequester the carbon in our garbage by throwing it in a glacial crevasse. |
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| If two rigid sections of a glacier move at different speeds and directions, shear forces cause them to break apart, opening a crevasse. |
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| A bergschrund forms when the movement of the glacier separates the moving ice from the stationary ice forming a crevasse. |
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| Bear Grylls first entered the limelight at the age of 23, when he became the youngest British mountain climber to conquer Everest, after a 90-day climb including a fall into a crevasse which almost cost him his life. |
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| At about 1715 Pacific daylight time, the helicopter was flying at a high speed in a crevasse among seracs on the glacier when its main rotor struck a serac. |
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| The final American climber, wedged in a crevasse with a compound leg fracture and pulverized ankle, is dramatically hauled off the mountain not by a PJ but by a member of the ranger service. |
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| One of the main rotor blades broke, and the helicopter careened into the ice wall of a perpendicular crevasse about 50 metres from the initial blade impact. |
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| The ice in the crevasse was shifting continually, there were few identifiable pieces of the helicopter, and remains of the main fuselage area were not recognizable. |
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| After a lucky escape from a concealed crevasse into which he had fallen, he reached the North Col, collected his gear, and continued to climb higher up the North Ridge. |
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| Police Inspector for west coast of the south island John Canning told Stuff news website that the helicopter was in a crevasse 762 m up the valley near Fox Glacier. |
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