Sentences with phrase «vertical cliffs»

This route takes you along the edge of vertical cliffs.

Summiting Mt. Olympus, the range's 7,980 - foot peak, requires technical climbing skills, as you'll face vertical cliff faces and icy glaciers.

They burrow nests into vertical cliffs and banks, and may make colonies with up to 2,000 nests according to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Offering silky white sand beaches on one side of the island and a rocky vertical cliff on the other side, Rawa is the perfect place to sit and unwind.

Hicks, Jennifer HIRKANI»S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Scale Modern Mountains to Combine Breastfeeding and Working La Leche League International, 2005 The title of this book was inspired by an ancient Indian tale about a young mother, Hirkani, who scaled down a 1,000 - foot vertical cliff in order to get to her baby to breastfeed.

Long Caye Wall, Coral Gardens and the aptly named Oasis — where huge black coral sponges grow from vertical cliffs.

The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) might be the world's best climber, able to scale near - vertical cliffs with an ease rivaled only by the world's best human rock climbers — who have the advantage of safety equipment and opposable thumbs.

Walking through pine forests and along walkways fastened to sheer vertical cliffs above the raging river

It can easily climb near - vertical cliffs as well as steep crevices.

Here at this part of the Ollantaytambo fortress, there are unique and finely shaped stones of all sizes laying everywhere, and there is a section of vertical cliff where perfect cubes of solid granite were extracted from the cliff face using a method that it is still not known (picture on the right).

It's the longing that overtakes you after seeing untamed evergreen forests, waterfalls that cascade down vertical cliffs and lakes that glitter an astonishing aquamarine.

Its Cabo da Roca is the famed location of many sea voyages and exploration missions with spectacular vertical cliffs rising up out of the sea.

«But you can not make vertical cliffs and pinnacles up to 100 meters [300 feet] high out of sand.

These dogs have at least six toes on each foot because they need the extra stability on the nearly vertical cliffs where they hunt.

Originating on remote islands of arctic Norway, the dog was used to wrestle and retrieve live puffin birds from the crevices of steep vertical cliffs.

Find it close to a series of near - vertical cliffs south of the Msikaba River.

This mid-size island off the coast of Trang province boasts a pair of good beaches within easy boating distance of a sea cave opening to a stripe of coral sand rimmed by vertical cliffs.

- South Head, and if time allows, «The Gap» — witness boiling surf smashing onto vertical cliffs - Lookout nature lovers!

Accompany our experienced guides past the 300 ft vertical cliffs of North Head into the Pacific Ocean.

Wander over glacial rocks at Stubbs Waterhole and ponder the vastness of geological time in Bararranna Gorge where ancient seabed now forms spectacular near vertical cliffs.

Be dwarfed by the 70 - metre high vertical cliffs and marvel at Gog and Magog, the nicknames given to the giant limestone stacks rising up out of the sea.

Seabirds, which reflect the health of their marine ecosystems, often build their nests in inaccessible areas — wedged into vertical cliffs or on remote islands battered by intense waves.

On two vertical cliffs in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain, 1000 or so puny, yamlike plants cling to life — and despite the plant's precarious cliffside existence, it somehow manages to reproduce.

Oasis — Deep dive (60 - 120ft) Large black corals and sponges growing from vertical cliff, up to sandy stretch with coral path communities.

Beyond the railing the land fell away, at first at a steep slope, and then in a sheer vertical cliff.

The second activity is rock climbing and Cat Ba is an ideal destination for this because of its rugged limestone mountains and high, almost vertical cliffs.

It is this and their spectacular positioning next to vertical cliffs with the Great Southern Ocean as their background that enable them to claim their rightful position as the Great Ocean Road's number one tourist attraction.

A series of vertical cliffs and dolerite columns stand like huge, isolated hobgoblins of nature 120 metres above the valley floor.

Seabirds nest in places that are inaccessible for most humans — vertical cliffs and remote islands surrounded by raging waves.

I would not recommend this game because the entertainment value reaches a vertical cliff very quickly.

Despite its elegant profile, for whatever incomprehensible reason the front of the HCD - 14 is a vertical cliff, as unpleasant to think about as the politician's metaphorical «fiscal cliff» and potentially as destructive to Hyundai's future.

Its multi-colored volcanic layers terminate in vertical cliffs that plunge straight into the Sea of Cortez.

Hiking along the beach from East Point to Ford Point is impossible due to section of vertical cliffs that drop directly into the ocean.

Hiking along the beach from East Point to Ford Point is impossible due to sections of vertical cliffs that drop directly into the ocean.

This involves a controlled descent using rope down the vertical cliff face on the Brazilian side of the Falls.

Your stay in the locality of Chivay, gives you better opportunities to enjoy the landscape of one of the world's deepest canyons (3,400 meters, at its deepest point), with the impressive panorama of its great river, its vertical cliffs, Incan benched terraces, in current agricultural production, as well as its typical villages and customs, and all of this crowned by the dominion of the condors» flight.

Acapulco is home to renowned cliff divers: trained divers who leap from the side of a vertical cliff into the surf below.

If you have what it takes, step of a vertical cliff which is 1000 meters above sea level.

On our downstream passage we'd sailed through the Iron Gates in darkness, so it was yet another wow factor moment as we marvelled at the vertical cliffs on our return journey, gathering on deck to take photos against the backdrop of the 140ft rock carving of the ancient Dacian king Decebalus.

At the center of this vertical cliff, where the lip has its nadir, the gush of volumes upon volumes of water makes its way, 70 meters down.

It is along this section of the Great Ocean Road the flat coastal plains terminate in a series of vertical cliffs, caverns, archways, blowholes and offshore rock stacks.

It is along this section of the Great Ocean Road that the flat coastal plains end in a series of vertical cliffs, caverns, archways, blowholes and offshore rock stacks.

One of these caves, which cuts several hundred yards into the base of a vertical cliff across from the beach in HA`ENA STATE PARK, is rich in legend and easy to explore.

This is a family beach that's also ideal for sailing and fishing, with the Anglesey Coastal Path meandering along rolling greenery above stark, vertical cliffs.