crevasse

• I do not believe that five men on the lid of a crevasse are as safe as four. —  The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
• Twice I have owed safety to a snow bridge, and it seems to me that the chance of finding some obstruction or some saving fault in the crevasse is a good one, but I am far from thinking that such a chance can be relied upon, and it would be an awful situation to fall beyond the limits of the Alpine rope We went on after lunch, and very soon got into soft snow and regular surface where crevasses are most unlikely to occur. —  Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
• On the far brink of the crevasse were the forms of men, who seemed to be waving their arms in the air and shouting. —  The People of the Mist
• The width of the crevasse was about six feet, so I hung freely in space, turning slowly round A great effort brought a knot in the rope within my grasp, and, after a moment's rest, I was able to draw myself up and reach another, and, at length, hauled myself on to the overhanging snow-lid into which the rope had cut. —  The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
• The width of the crevasse was about six feet, so I hung freely in space, turning slowly round. —  The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

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