[Vocabulary] Is crossing vertical or horizontal?

[wotcha]

Is 'crossing' vertical or horizontal?

 

[emsr2d2]

Is 'crossing' vertical or horizontal?

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[wotcha]

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He would attempt the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, a distance of about 2876 kilometers.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm trying to imagine how one would cross a continent vertically.

 

[SoothingDave]

Going from the Weddell to the Ross would seem to be vertical. Then again, maps are all about how you're used to looking at them.

I think crossing some type of geographic feature doesn't imply any direction. If you cross the Alps you're going north-south, but if you cross the Rockies, you're going east-west.

 

[Tdol]

He would attempt the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, a distance of about 2876 kilometers.

A distance and not a height- that would give the answer to me.