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This is the time to go walking or horse-riding in the fresh mountain air or skiing on the Hintertux glacier.
They wound up paddling through an ice maze on a lake at the toe of a glacier.
It took two days and a night, and involved the ascent of two mountains and an evening descent upon a rotten glacier.
These sills mark areas at the coast where low relief makes it possible for a glacier to spread out and thus lose its erosional power.
Near the toe of the glacier a party of three guys were loafing around their tent.
In a clearing between clouds we could see just ahead an area of large seracs where the shifting glacier had cleaved into blocks.
Set your alarm for midnight and try to catch a couple of winks before roping up and entering the world of technical glacier travel.
The glacier scoured away all the rock above the Portland brownstone leaving a mantle of glacial till.
Effective techniques of fighting the enemy in the mountains are induced rockfalls, avalanches, glacier movements and mudslides.
It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier.
Conduction of heat to the glacier surface from the air and condensation of water vapour are important variables causing ablation.
It is on actively moving glacier ice covered by rock debris called ablation or surface moraine.
Some tribes boiled or steamed the large and fleshy roots of ballhead waterleaf with the bulbs of yellow glacier lily.
By the time a rescue helicopter lifted Don from the glacier, another storm threatened.
Its all a bit organized and safe and jolly hockey sticks, but the glacier walk is pretty interesting.
I'll give you a quick recap of the events since we landed on the glacier on the 11th.
I stayed off the glacier, stumbling down the left moraine, often catching myself with my arms just before slamming into glacial erratics.
The yampas, glacier lilies, biscuit roots, and thistles are among her favorite flower roots.
Left by a passing glacier, the boulders acted as umbrellas to the softer rock beneath, protecting it from pluvial erosion.
The following morning we climbed on, ascending steeply to reach the toe of the glacier that lead up to Syram and its unnamed pyramidal neighbour.
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We crossed the snow, cut our way through a piece of entangled glacier, reached the bergschrund, and passed it without a rope.
To the east, the glacier seemed to fuse with the blue line of the hinterland.
The cirque, therefore, is at once the product of the glacier and its generator and conserver.
The work on the glacier was the beginning of the ceaseless grind which the ascent of Denali demands.
Now I submit that this is not the Place to seek for the scooping power of a glacier.
So I made me a little sled out of spruce boughs, put a blanket and some sea biscuit on it and set out up the glacier.
In this excursion only the marginal portion of the glacier would do erosive work.
Similar disappointment was experienced by my friend Escher upon the great glacier of Aletsch.
To me the most surprising was the Ice-Festival on the great skating-pool on the Kenia glacier.
And see the glisten of that glacier in the haze, like a star in the veil of a bride!
In the upper portions of the glacier movement due to pressure probably takes place by the gliding of one granule over another.
The region was one of serac where the glacier was puckered up, folded and crushed.
It is heavily crevassed, as though it once formed the serac portion of a glacier.
Wherever, beneath the edge of a snowfield, the country shapes itself into a valley, there you will find a glacier.
Drift includes the unassorted material known as till and deposits made by streams flowing from a glacier.
Next year, I suppose, a funicular, to the top of the glacier.
The two rivers originate in the Central Asian high mountains where glacier and snow melt contribute substantially to runoff generation.
Tyndall, that the glacier will sooner or later restore to us the remains of the unfortunate victims.
Next morning we walked to Rosenlaui, the BEAU ID'EAL of Swiss scenery, where we spent the middle of the day in an excursion to the glacier.
Vertical shafts in the ice sheet, called moulins, can funnel melt water beneath parts of the glacier and lift them up.
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