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rockface

n. (alternative form of rock face English)

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Rockface (TV series)

Rockface is a British television drama series which was broadcast on BBC One from 2002 to 2003. It ran for two series: the first six episodes were broadcast from 13 March to 17 April 2002 on Wednesday nights; the second series of eight episodes ran from 25 May to 27 July 2003 on Sunday nights.

The series is set in Glenntannoch, a fictitious town in the Scottish Highlands, and centres on a mountain rescue team led by Dr Gordon Urquhart. The major rescues and incidents in the series were based on real life rescues conducted by the Lochaber Mountain Rescue service.

Usage examples of "rockface".

The ledge was flat enough to sleep on with a minimum of discomfort, protected at its rear by a sheer rockface, and affording a good view out over the valley.

Justin stopped pummeling the rockface and held the hammer out in front of him, feeling its heat on his face.

The honeycombed rockface rose up to a great height, a crag festooned with vegetation overhanging it.

Therion had enabled him to teleport himself away from the rockface at the final instant.

It was a stone vault in the mouth of the rockface, this cave they called home.

Theluk had scaled the rockface and was putting brushwood over top of the cleft.

She moved from the trees along the rockface, where she could cut off a retreat to the tunnel.

It was bright now, the sun directly overhead, spilling mellow light down the rockfaces so that they shone all warm as winter blankets.

The triple massive horizontal columns of the aether engines pounded before me on their steel and concrete beds, and Grandmaster Harrat led me beside their flashing pistons to their link with the Bracebridge earth, a great iron plug the size of a house bolted to the rockface which was called the fetter.

A hundred meters farther on, the ice on the left closed in and met the ice over the rockface to the right, and that was it: dead end.

But after a few days of literally learning the ropes of gear and climbing protocols on the rockfaces, ledges, cables, scaffolds, and slideways in the area, I volunteered for work duty and was given a chance to fail.

StarDrifter remembered the enchantment in the carved rockface that covered the entrance of the stairwell leading down to the waterways at the junction of the River Nordra and the Icescarp Alps.