mered

• to harden into stone, to petrify

• stark

• arduous, bluff, hairy, high-pitched, precipitous, prone, sheer, steep, sticky

• steep

• sheer

• catatony

• escarpment, gradient, precipitousness

• steepen

• to steepen

• brink

• staring

• escarpment, rapid slope

• to sheer

• brow

• crag

• escarpment

• ascent

• to rise boldly, to sheer, to zoom

• steeply dipping lode, steeply dipping seam

• inclined railway

• to escarp