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Europe's highest cliff, Troll Wall in Norway, a famous BASE jumping location for jumpers from around the world. At all geography and geology, a cliff or rock face is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical.
The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, [1] [2] was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north.
The cliff face, which reaches a height of 350 feet (110 m), owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint, deposited during the Late Cretaceous. The cliffs, on both sides of the town of Dover in Kent, stretch for eight miles (13 km). The White Cliffs of Dover form part of the North Downs.
1. A mountain or hill; a cliff face or precipice. 2. Another name for a bergschrund, iceberg, or inselberg. bergschrund. Also rimaye or simply berg or schrund. A crevasse or series of parallel crevasses that opens in a glacier when a mass of moving ice detaches and pulls away from stagnant ice or firn.
A A-grade Also aid climbing grade. The technical difficulty grading system for aid climbing (both for "original" and an adapted version for "new wave"), which goes: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and up to A6 (for "new wave"). See C-grade. Abalakov thread Abalakov thread Also V-thread. A type of anchor used in abseiling especially in winter and in ice climbing. ABD Also assisted braking device. A term ...
Next stop: the fiscal cliff! Much like a scene out of an Indiana Jones movie, the wild ride Straight ahead, the road abruptly ends, yet the horses show no signs of slowing.
Rockfall deposit, Afghanistan. A rockfall or rock-fall [1] is a quantity/sheets of rock that has fallen freely from a cliff face. The term is also used for collapse of rock from roof or walls of mine or quarry workings.
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