kloofs

The extreme sport of kloofing involves climbing up mountains and, typically, leaning back over the abyss and rappelling back down into steep canyons, or "kloofs," with lots of water.

Between a Rock and a Waterfall Peter Wonacott 2011

Somewhere 100 or so feet above the pine trees, I groped for a piece of climbing equipment that had dropped into a frigid nook filled with mountain water, halting my journey down one of South Africa's most spectacular "kloofs," high above the Western Cape city of Stellenbosch.

Between a Rock and a Waterfall Peter Wonacott 2011

Emmanuel flipped the card and studied the pristine beauty of the misty hills and kloofs.

Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

Emmanuel flipped the card and studied the pristine beauty of the misty hills and kloofs.

Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

There are plenty of kloofs and valleys to hide stolen animals.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

"I haven't the faintest notion of Roddy's whereabouts," she said, "and if he is lost out in this storm, perhaps drowned in one of the kloofs, yours will be the blame, and I will see you are brought to book for it."

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

As for Roddy, poor kid, he is probably drowned in one of the kloofs and speeding for the river by now -- just the sort of adventure his queer little mind would embark on.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

A halt was then made for a meal in rather a pretty spot, which actually boasted of some trees sufficiently large to afford shade, and under the foot of some well-wooded kloofs on our right.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

Afar off was a roaring sound new to her, that, later, she discovered to be the rushing waters in the kloofs that were tearing tumultuously to swell the river a few miles off.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

On the third day, one of the kloofs on the farm gave up a wig of golden hair, all muddy and weed-entangled.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley