Sentences with phrase «sheer drop»

The road between the two is windy, often without any protective barrier between you and sheer drops down the mountain.

From Aguas Calientes, there are regular bus trips to Machu Picchu with the road up the mountain consisting of a succession of hairpin bends on a single track road with sheer drops at the sides.

Cut in a breezy fabric with hemstitched panels, this sleeveless blouse from Vince Camuto is styled with a split back panel with a layered sheer drop for a swingy, modern silhouette.

There is great variety from sheer drop offs, pinnacles, to expansive hard and soft coral gardens offering the opportunity to see a multitude of colourful sea life including crocodile fish, lionfish, blue spotted stingrays and occasionally sharks.

The tear shaped Little Brother is a wall dive with sheer drops on all sides.

To have confidence built by overcoming a physical challenge either of endurance or scrambling in, what the books refer to as «exposed» situations (above sheer drops with lots of empty air around you) should be every child's birthright in this country.

Flanked alternately by battle - scarred rock faces and sheer drops several hundred feet to the valley floor below for much of its length, the road twists and turns like nothing you've ever seen.

The Plains also feature many interesting attractions such as Bakers Falls, Chimney Pool and the famous World's End (a 3700 ft sheer drop that offers fabulous views of the tea estates below and all the way out to the distant southern coastline).

North and closer to Ingham, Jourama Falls and Australia's highest sheer drop waterfall at Wallaman are spectacular after rain.

It is 70 miles away from Belize City and boasts 700 coral patches surrounded by sheer drop - offs from 40 to 2,600 feet.

You'll witness Vøringfoss - Norway's mightiest waterfall thundering down a 475 - feet sheer drop, and take a ferry crossing from Denmark to Sweden.You'll visit a Norwegian farm and meet the family that has owned it for eight generations.

Some of them offer sheer drops, others are a little more sloping and many have ledges in various depths.

Not only is the track infuriating to play, with hairpin turns with sheer drops near to them on icy surfaces but it is another example of a track just being completely generic.

You are faced with numerous obstacles and sheer drops which must be navigated by constructing a pathway in front of you.

What I'd really like to be setting up a GoFundMe page for is a new deck so my French doors don't open onto a 1.5 m sheer drop.

Getting up to this ancient arena by scrambling over sheer drops and navigating crumbling ruins was challenge enough, but now you'll have...

For example, I remember using my paraglider to get over a precarious valley with sheer drops on both sides and although I managed to successfully get to the other side, it started to rain.

The first time I heard of Death Road was on Top Gear, seeing them drive down this crazy narrow road with sheer drops at one side, it looked terrifying.

I found her to be both gentle and opinionated, kind and passionate — the kind of person I could spend hours talking to in a coffee shop... or clinging to as a Bolivian bus careens a little too close to the sheer drop below.

It felt like the view from the top floor of the Marc Antony Hotel, where beyond the initial exhilaration at the sheer drop the boys sensed life going on below without them as its center.

Sharp bends, stomach - churning loops and sheer drops — are you prepared for the breath - taking, full throttle return of WipEout?

What this really means is that, while for the most part, the programmers have hard - coded the instruction «do not walk here» into most of the game's sheer drops, there are a couple of different locations in the game that the programmers forgot to draw an invisible line over, causing the enemies to just walk right over the edge.

When you walk along a coastal path close to the cliff edge, it's hard to concentrate on anything other than the sheer drop below.

The uneven ground is littered with jagged rocks, tufts of slippery grass, and bus - sized boulders — with sheer drop - offs on every side.

Another friend, and Automobile's social media guru, Chris Bacarella, doesn't, opting for a line that ends with a sheer drop to solid concrete.

I look back just in time to see our other friend Chris taking a different, dumber line, one with a sheer drop to solid concrete.

On the far side, David and Michael stood at the edge of a sheer drop - off cut into the hill to make a little more room for Highway 78.

697), with a thirteen - year - old son upstairs and a ten - year - old daughter on the front porch and two men standing in her back hallway, one of them holding a shotgun, the other a long blade that even in the sheer drop of this moment made her think machete, though this was the first time she'd ever seen one...

The 180 meters white sandy beach is accessed by an inclinator that will carry you down the sheer drop of the cliff face providing the perfect backdrop for spectacular photo opportunities.

To reach to the Nevis bungee site we took a van up the side of a mountain and through a series of perilous switchbacks with a sheer drop - off on the side.

This is one of the best Indonesia mountain treks if you want adventure, as it is full of difficult sections and sheer drops.

Turtle Ridge — Medium dive (maximum 70ft) Easily navigated along coral ridges running from 30ft to sheer drop at 65ft.

«The Durango and Silverton Railway is another highlight, because it gives a sense of what it must have been like when the railway was built, looking over the side of the carriage at the sheer drop to the river below, and marvelling at how short a time it took to build with the equipment they had at the time.

Thin air, sheer drops, changeable weather — mountains are dangerous places.

Its pristine lagoon harbors 750 coral patches, while outside the ring of islands, 50 miles of sheer drop - offs from 40 to 2,600 feet, plus numerous shipwrecks, wait to entertain divers.

Home to about 700 patch reefs in the lagoon and surrounded by 50 miles of sheer drop - offs, which start from 25 feet and drop straight down to about 2,700 feet., you will find that most of the reefs are virtually uncharted and untouched.

One of Bali «s most revered Hindu temples is located here, Pura Uluwatu, which stands majestically on a rocky cliff face with a sheer drop and amazing views over the ocean.

Hairpin bends, sheer drops and grinding gears will have your adrenalin pumping and your body on full alert.

* Kilauea Lighthouse - located on the Northern most tip of Kauai, this lighthouse sits on the edge of a massive cliff with a sheer drop to the ocean below.

The top of the wall averages 35 - 40 feet and the sheer drop is covered with huge sponges, black coral and gorgonian fans.

With it's jagged peaks, sheer drops, ice and unforgiving weather, it's a favorite amongst mountaineers from all across the globe and one made famous by Sir Edmund Hillary when he trained here before his historic first ascent of Mt. Everest.

With 300m sheer drops, small waterfalls, and an abundance of palm trees, the beauty of Paradise Valley will take your breath away.

Below it is a sheer drop of thousands of feet of vertical, down to the river below.

The only way to reach this series of shallow coral reefs and sheer drop - offs is by liveaboard.

The sheer drop from the remaining bastion to the clear emerald waters below is about a hundred feet.

Striking outcroppings set the stage for the sheer drop - off.

A regular stopping point for the surf camp's weekly trip to Biarritz, it wasn't long before surf holiday guests were taking on the park's notorious flumes and wave pools, with a particular highlight being «The Sinkhole», a thirty metre slide down into a spinning bowl of water, and «the donut drop», a sheer drop down one side of the slide before riding up the other side, all while clinging onto a plastic inflatable donut (and trying not to scream).

But even when the whale sharks aren't around, the snorkeling in these rich waters is fantastic, sheer drop - offs allowing divers to explore a vast cornucopia of marine life.