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What is a couloir?

What is a couloir? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (climbing, skiing) A steep gorge along a mountainside.
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But at its narrowest the couloir is about two ski lengths wide.
We pick a line of lesser resistance, but nonetheless find ourselves perched above a steep couloir.
Bruce and the Gurkhas were below the rib, and could only see up the couloir.
Just below him lay the longest ice-slope, or couloir, he had hitherto encountered.
Soon after this we quitted our ridge and dropped into a couloir to the left of it.
So they turned their attentions to climbing a neighbouring couloir which they completed in eight hours the following day.

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