| The answer could be that in the Antarctica snowfields, they are subject to intensive UV irradiation which causes ionisation. |
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| Their typical breeding habitat is rocky talus and snowfields near sedge and grassy areas. |
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| They had to cross the mountains, glaciers and snowfields to reach the whaling station on the other side. |
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| I stood and slowly turned 360 degrees, taking a long look at river, woods, meadow, valley, sea, mountains, snowfields, and glaciers. |
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| You'll encounter a challenging mix of steep ascents and descents punctuated with alpine streams, snowfields and lush meadows. |
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| After a quarter mile, we turn off into a steep hillside broken by blocky outcrops of granite interspersed with snowfields and patches of green. |
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| The nearly flat trail was bordered on one side by precipitous slopes, where penumbral snowfields fell into the crater 100 feet below. |
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| The sun fell blinding white on the snowfields, and the dancing breeze swept ice crystals down from ultramontane glaciers. |
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| Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country with many snowfields, glaciers, and deep lakes. |
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| This forested 3-mile loop follows the clear, icy waters of the rushing Ohanapecosh River as it tumbles down from glaciers and snowfields above. |
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| Then sunlight breaks through, catching the tops of the snowfields on the mountains and lighting up rows of orange poplars. |
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| We'll take just our day packs up these ridges during our seven-day circuit of the mountain, when lingering snowfields add drama, and wildflowers are at their most sublime. |
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| On the bike tour through Montana's Glacier Park, for example, you'll average 60 mountainous miles of cycling per day, cycling past glacial snowfields and tumbling waterfalls. |
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| They reached South Georgia after 17 days in mountainous seas, but still faced a 22-mile trek across unexplored mountains, glaciers and snowfields to get help. |
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| They predict that in the next half a decade or so, the Himalayas could experience intense flooding as mountain lakes overflow with water from melting glaciers and snowfields. |
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| Its slopes are an angular patchwork of snowfields, lava-strewn plains, basalt pinnacles, and looming cinder cones. |
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