| 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. |
