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couloir

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[1] The uppermost of 3 climbing parties fell on a steep couloir and took out two parties below them.

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[1] The uppermost of 3 climbing parties fell on a steep couloir and took out two parties below them.

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[1] The uppermost of 3 climbing parties fell on a steep couloir and took out two parties below them.

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It's used as to encourage someone that is nervous about skiing a narrow/steep couloir or climbing a route at their physical limit.

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I grew up in Colorado and my family normalized many terms like couloir or scree that got me in a bit of temporary trouble with an English instructor in Texas who thought I'd been fishing for exotic words to use in a paper.

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How do you use couloir in a sentence?

[1] The uppermost of 3 climbing parties fell on a steep couloir and took out two parties below them.