| For far above them a dark jagged line had opened across the snowfield, with the dull report they had heard. |
| When that occurred, the growth of the snowfield as well as of the ice cap must have been accelerated by glacial movement. |
| From under the granular crust of a subalpine snowfield sprang forth life as tender and fresh as a butterfly's newly unfolded wings. |
| A mountain rescuer, who was wearing a bulky but lightweight vacuum mattress pack on his back, was deployed on to a snowfield from a hover. |
| I'd topped a fold and begun the last scramble to my truck when something streaked across the snowfield a hundred yards in front of me. |
| From where we stood, thick black hoses ran like wiring up across a snowfield, snaking in the distance over makeshift supports. |
