Jonathan Franklin

Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.

American Journalist

Conrad Anker

Perhaps you could say that mountaineers are driven by ego or our competitiveness, but there's a lot more to it than that. Whether it's a huge face in the Himalaya or some crag in the woods behind your house, exploration offers us a unique perspective on the world that you can't really find anywhere else.

American Athlete

Douglas Hyde

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Irish Politician

David Hockney

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

English Artist

Used to describe natural scenery, often in outdoor adventure contexts like hiking or mountain climbing.

Landscape Term

Evokes a strong image of rough nature that can be powerful in creative writing or storytelling.

Visual Imagery

Use 'crag' when referring to a specific part of a mountain or rock, not the whole structure.

Specific Setting

Ideal for creating a dramatic, perhaps old-fashioned tone in literary texts.

Literary Flair

Rarely used in modern language, but it can still be found in poetry or artistic writing for its archaic tone.

Poetic Rarity

Use 'crag' for description when you want to highlight the physical attributes of an animal's neck, like in nature writing.

Descriptive Precision

 from the moment they are born the little pups are vulnerable these waters are full of predators even adult Optimus Oris will eat the offspring of others to increase the chance of survival for their own pups the only real safety is amongst the crags of coral

Sea Reptile Birth PIPE...

 water it'll stay at sea for two to three years protecting itself from natural hazards like storms and predators and man-made hazards like oil spills and nets of fishing trawlers even though our young puffin has to walk through rocky crags and craggy rocks

Nesting Puffin PIPE...

 But real-life human lovers were too intimidated even to approach her. When her father asked for guidance from the Oracle of Apollo, the god of light, reason, and prophecy. He was told to abandon his daughter on a rocky crag

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