Couloir

To get down that tongue of rock to the lower snows of the couloir was a job that fairly brought us to the end of our tether. ❋ John Buchan (1907)

The snow in the couloir is a delight, turned sugary because it has sat untouched on the hill for so long, and we whoop as we ski down it, stopping occasionally to take photos, before we eventually reach a snow-covered road in a forgotten side valley. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And it's prone to just halving off building-size chunks of ice and flushing down to the couloir, and if you're there at the wrong time, you're in big trouble. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Barry had climbed the couloir once before, in 1982, back when he admits he didn't know all that much about avalanche conditions. ❋ Michael J. Ybarra (2010)

The rescue team went on to say that they had witnessed a climber in a red suit with patches fall from the middle of the Traverse, the section of the route which connects the top of the Bottleneck couloir to the summit slopes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kina had skied big lines in the Tetons for years; on many of them, if you failed to make the right turn at the right time, you would fall for a thousand feet, pinballing between the rocky walls of the couloir until you ragdolled out the bottom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But another Sherpa guide had dropped his ice axe, effectively stranding him, so Chhiring tied him to his harness, and down climbed the couloir with his friend hanging off him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The route to the summit of K2 follows steepening snow slopes towards a snow and ice couloir called "the Bottleneck". ❋ Unknown (2008)

The ensuing serac avalanche swept down the Bottleneck couloir, stripping it of the fixed ropes the climbers had used to ascend to the summit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then again, when you're flying 40 feet through the air on skis into an absurdly steep, rock-strewn couloir, it hardly matters whose logo you've got plastered on your back -- unless it's big enough to use as a parachute. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Five to six more climbers perished who were stranded above the Bottleneck couloir at the time of the avalanche. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ainsi j'ai fait un malaise vendredi soir ou je me suis litteralement ecroulé par terre et j'ai du rester comme ca comme un con allongé au milieu du couloir apres avoir monté les escaliers pour rejoindre mon chez moi douillet! ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

Assez d'accord, Danaée, sauf qu'ils n'avaient malheureusement pas un stand fourmissant de grands sacs en plastic: entre un couloir menant à un avion en train de se vider, l'immigration d'un côté et la sécurité de l'autre, il n'y avait pas tellement d'options. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thus, describing the lesbian section of a general-interest bookstore, you might say le couloir lesbien the “aisle of lesbos”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Bon j'me teleporte dans mes reves aussi ca arrive c quand j'ai pas d'memoire de l'endroit exacte ou j'me trouve, que j'visualise pas bien ben jsuis direct teleporté dans un endroit familier. ici donc mon couloir d'entrée. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

La les filles se mettent a courire dans la chambre de ma mere et moi je m'arrete en plein milieu du couloir realisant que ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

It was Günther, who was supposed to be stringing fixed ropes in the couloir to ease Reinhold's descent. ❋ Shoumatoff, Alex (2006)

Bref il s'avance vers moi et fini meme pas sa marche pour s'ecrouler au milieu du couloir comme une grosse loutre .... ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)