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The parks shoreline can be very unforgiving from the cold water to the sheer cliffs and drop offs, by partnering with the highly trained mountaineering guides on SHARP, we are able to safely effect these types of high angle rescues here at the park. – Chief Ranger Joe Hughes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What is happening is the carnage of people -- particularly the killing of innocents. The youth are being searched out in towns and in villages. Then they have been killed and thrown off the cliffs. They are not even allowed to be buried, as for example in Mahibere Dego. – Abune Mathias	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The terrain below where Bunker went missing is near the location of the Liberty Ridge tragedy that claimed the lives of six climbers in 2014. It is very steep, terminates in cliffs, and is known for frequent avalanches and active rockfall, this, combined with the broken surface of the Carbon Glacier, will prevent the deployment of ground teams in this search. – National Park Service	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Steep-sided depressions, such as gullies, creek beds, and ditches will trap moving snow and cause the avalanche to accumulate much more deeply in a small area, trees, rocks, and cliffs can lead to greater injury if you're caught in an avalanche. – Avalanche Canada	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Normally when we have cliffs like this, it is in the middle of nowhere. I have never been to a place with an amazing cliff right in the city centre. – Gary Hunt	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc, these are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. – Ronald Reagan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Gurja Himal expedition's The Gurja Himal expedition, the Gurja Himal expedition has cliffs everywhere. – Satori Adventures ' website says.Paudyal	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Every day, this became my ritual, i'd walk up and down the beach looking for new high grounds, screaming' help' at the top of my lungs, and collecting water falling from the top of the cliffs. Every night, I'd find the highest point I could climb up to and find somewhere to fall asleep before the tide would rise. Every morning, I'd wake up soaked in sea mist and watch the sun rise. – Angela Hernandez	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches. There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see. And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade. They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone. And I name this saying wisdom. – Matthew Stover	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
A lot of people come to Achill to look at the power of nature because you see the cliffs and the boglands and the beaches and mountains, this is just one very vivid example of the power of nature. – Sean Molloy	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's a small world with deep canyons, troughs, cliffs ... dark regions that are still slightly mysterious to us. – New Horizons co-investigator Cathy Olkin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Charon just blew our socks off, it's a small world with deep canyons, troughs, cliffs ... dark regions that are still slightly mysterious to us. – New Horizons co-investigator Cathy Olkin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Assuming iron ore prices don't rebound significantly from here, it appears (Cliffs) is going to have cash flow issues. – Wolfe Research analyst Gordon Johnson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Like every generation since, we are here on Gallipoli, because we believe that the Anzacs represented Australians at our best, it’s the perseverance of those who scaled the cliffs under a rain of fire. It’s the compassion of the nurses who attended to the thousands of wounded. – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have discovered near-pristine, sheer-drop cliffs of over 1,968 feet and mapped structures that are rarely found in other parts of the ocean, it is truly a huge canyon. – Malcolm McCulloch	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This is a tremendously exciting historical development, traces of buildings were unearthed close to the cliffs upon which the castle was built. These buildings most likely formed a small settlement, just outside the original castle gate. – Mark Durkan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We intend to spin the technologies developed for the terrestrial RoboSimian back out to applications in space, these tasks include assembly and maintenance of orbital structures; exploration of low-gravity bodies like asteroids, comets, and moons; exploration of caves and cliffs on Mars or our moon; and even preconstruction of habitats wherever humans care to venture in the solar system. – Brett Kennedy	Found on CNN 9 years ago
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm. – Allen Ginsberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. – Tori Amos	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see. – Nat Burton	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The parks shoreline can be very unforgiving from the cold water to the sheer cliffs and drop offs, by partnering with the highly trained mountaineering guides on SHARP, we are able to safely effect these types of high angle rescues here at the park.

– Chief Ranger Joe Hughes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What is happening is the carnage of people -- particularly the killing of innocents. The youth are being searched out in towns and in villages. Then they have been killed and thrown off the cliffs. They are not even allowed to be buried, as for example in Mahibere Dego.

– Abune Mathias

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The terrain below where Bunker went missing is near the location of the Liberty Ridge tragedy that claimed the lives of six climbers in 2014. It is very steep, terminates in cliffs, and is known for frequent avalanches and active rockfall, this, combined with the broken surface of the Carbon Glacier, will prevent the deployment of ground teams in this search.

– National Park Service

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Steep-sided depressions, such as gullies, creek beds, and ditches will trap moving snow and cause the avalanche to accumulate much more deeply in a small area, trees, rocks, and cliffs can lead to greater injury if you're caught in an avalanche.

– Avalanche Canada

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Normally when we have cliffs like this, it is in the middle of nowhere. I have never been to a place with an amazing cliff right in the city centre.

– Gary Hunt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc, these are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

– Ronald Reagan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Gurja Himal expedition's The Gurja Himal expedition, the Gurja Himal expedition has cliffs everywhere.

– Satori Adventures ' website says.Paudyal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Every day, this became my ritual, i'd walk up and down the beach looking for new high grounds, screaming' help' at the top of my lungs, and collecting water falling from the top of the cliffs. Every night, I'd find the highest point I could climb up to and find somewhere to fall asleep before the tide would rise. Every morning, I'd wake up soaked in sea mist and watch the sun rise.

– Angela Hernandez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches. There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see. And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade. They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone. And I name this saying wisdom.

– Matthew Stover

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

A lot of people come to Achill to look at the power of nature because you see the cliffs and the boglands and the beaches and mountains, this is just one very vivid example of the power of nature.

– Sean Molloy

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's a small world with deep canyons, troughs, cliffs ... dark regions that are still slightly mysterious to us.

– New Horizons co-investigator Cathy Olkin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Charon just blew our socks off, it's a small world with deep canyons, troughs, cliffs ... dark regions that are still slightly mysterious to us.

– New Horizons co-investigator Cathy Olkin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Assuming iron ore prices don't rebound significantly from here, it appears (Cliffs) is going to have cash flow issues.

– Wolfe Research analyst Gordon Johnson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Like every generation since, we are here on Gallipoli, because we believe that the Anzacs represented Australians at our best, it’s the perseverance of those who scaled the cliffs under a rain of fire. It’s the compassion of the nurses who attended to the thousands of wounded.

– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have discovered near-pristine, sheer-drop cliffs of over 1,968 feet and mapped structures that are rarely found in other parts of the ocean, it is truly a huge canyon.

– Malcolm McCulloch

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This is a tremendously exciting historical development, traces of buildings were unearthed close to the cliffs upon which the castle was built. These buildings most likely formed a small settlement, just outside the original castle gate.

– Mark Durkan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We intend to spin the technologies developed for the terrestrial RoboSimian back out to applications in space, these tasks include assembly and maintenance of orbital structures; exploration of low-gravity bodies like asteroids, comets, and moons; exploration of caves and cliffs on Mars or our moon; and even preconstruction of habitats wherever humans care to venture in the solar system.

– Brett Kennedy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

– Allen Ginsberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

– Tori Amos

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

– Nat Burton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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