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• n  a deep fissure

• Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch him, his climbing pole raked Erik across the nose and chin.
• The expedition had a little trouble with crevasses, but the tractors proved to have unexpected crevasse-detecting talents.
• Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch him, his climbing pole raked Erik across the nose and chin.

News & Articles

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• New Bird Species Discovered In Cambodian Capitol
  Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online To discover new species, scientists often travel to the most remote jungle or the deepest ocean crevasse. However, conservationists recently spotted a new species simply strolling around the streets of Cambodia’s busy capital city, according to a report in the journal Forktail . Dubbed the Cambodian tailorbird, or Orthotomus chaktomuk , the ...
  June 26, 2013 - redOrbit
• New Bird Species Discovered In Cambodian Capitol
  Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online To discover new species, scientists often travel to the most remote jungle or the deepest ocean crevasse. However, conservationists recently spotted a new species simply strolling around the streets of Cambodia’s busy capital city, according to a report in the journal Forktail . Dubbed the Cambodian tailorbird, or Orthotomus chaktomuk , the ...
  June 26, 2013 - redOrbit

Quotes

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• Patrick Farmer in Sydney Morning Herald
  If I see a polar bear, they will see it at the same time I do,Mr Farmer said. "If I fall down a crevasse, they'll see that I've fallen down a crevasse."
• Charlie Melancon in Monroe News Star
  I have some concern with some of the stuff in there that's not considered emergencies,Melancon said. "But all in all, to do nothing is not an option. All I know is we need to do something to stop falling off a cliff and into the crevasse...
• Mark Inglis in France24
  We were just two cocky young professional mountaineers who climbed into a storm,Inglis says. "There is a tiny crevasse just down from the summit of Cook and so we just snuck into there and thought we would wait six hours, 12 hours,...