couloir
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Definition of couloir
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Synonyms for couloir
Synonyms
canyon (also cañon), col, defile, flume, gap, gill [British], gorge, gulch, gulf, kloof [South African], linn [chiefly Scottish], notch, pass, ravine, saddle
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Examples of couloir in a Sentence
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In fact, Richards and Mena aren't the first people to notice this couloir on the Northeast Face. — Cory Richards, National Geographic, "What’s harder than summiting Everest? Getting climbers to respect it again.," 5 Apr. 2019 To reach the pair, the rescuers began climbing Kinshofer’s couloir—a steep gully filled with ice that leads to a 300-plus-foot rock wall. — Marcin Jamkowski, Outside Online, "Rescue on the Killer Mountain," 11 Apr. 2018 On Mount Shuksan, Adam caught an edge on both the northwest couloir and the line above Hanging Glacier, his body tomahawking through space. — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, "The Boy Who Lived on Edges," 22 Mar. 2018 Aäe kept an intense training regimen, skiing steep couloirs in the North Cascades at five months with her pants unzipped, running a 30-mile week leading up tothe birth, and going into labor at the climbing gym. — Caitlin Moran, The Seattle Times, "Elite female athletes balance climbing huge mountains, raising tiny humans," 16 Aug. 2017 Of course, the ultimate initiation here may be tackling the Super C, a backcountry couloir that experts come from all over the world to drop into. — Candice Rainey, Condé Nast Traveler, "Why Portillo in the Chilean Andes Should Be Your Next Ski Trip," 10 Jan. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'couloir.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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