Their habitat is similarly varied, ranging from rainforest to snowfield to hot desert fringe. |
The moon just showed over the mountains in that direction which cast their strange black shadows on the snowfield. |
From under the granular crust of a subalpine snowfield sprang forth life as tender and fresh as a butterfly's newly unfolded wings. |
When that occurred, the growth of the snowfield as well as of the ice cap must have been accelerated by glacial movement. |
For far above them a dark jagged line had opened across the snowfield, with the dull report they had heard. |
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. |