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  • Morrel expected Villefort would be dejected; he found him as he had found him six weeks before, calm, firm, and full of that glacial politeness, that most insurmountable barrier which separates the well-bred from the vulgar man.   (source)
    glacial = the main building (or buildings) of government
  • As the bin continued to pitch, the scrap at the front began to slide forward, bit by bit, a great iron glacier breaking apart.†   (source)
  • The letters, like so many others, languished in the glacial mail system, and wouldn't make it to America until long after the war's end.†   (source)
  • The water felt like a glacier melting against my legs.†   (source)
  • In a glacier located in the Swiss Alps (or the Rocky Mountains, better, or on Greenland, even better), some explorers have found — embedded in a flow of clear ice — a space vehicle.†   (source)
  • She turned the card over and looked at the photograph of Glacier Falls on the back.†   (source)
  • These glaciers fed five of the great rivers in Asia, collectively supplying fresh water to nearly half the world's population.†   (source)
  • Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.†   (source)
  • He and Newt had just joined Chuck for breakfast at a picnic table right outside the Kitchen when a large group of Glaciers got up and ran toward the West Door, talking excitedly about something.†   (source)
  • But his frustration at the glacial pace of change in his city had worn on him.†   (source)
  • It would've been so easy to push Malfoy off a glacier and make it look like an accident… .†   (source)
  • Islands and porpoises and glaciers and mountains.†   (source)
  • The queen's blazing, glacier-blue eyes were as ethereal as her lovely face.†   (source)
  • THE WAY TO REMEMBER PLEISTOCENE IS TO REMEMBER THAT THIS EPOCH WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THE APPEARANCE OF MAN AND WIDESPREAD GLACIAL ICE—REMEMBER THE ICE, IT RHYMES WITH PLEIS IN PLEISTOCENE.†   (source)
  • The Lutzes and Ripplemeyers' fifteen hundred acres cut across a dozen ponds and glacial moraines, back to back in a six-mile swath.†   (source)
  • Do you remember what it used to be like, back in the Ice Age, when the glaciers covered the earth and the saber-toothed tiger roamed the frozen night?†   (source)
  • We were playing this game-within-a-game where you shoot each other with paintballs on a glacier.†   (source)
  • The Grand Maester's nod was as slow and deliberate as a glacier.†   (source)
  • Those glaciers are works of art!†   (source)
  • Along the walls, purple tapestries showed scenes of snowy forests, barren mountains, and glaciers.†   (source)
  • With a benumbed heaviness like moving through snow, I began to slog and weave through the debris, rubbish breaking under my feet in sharp, glacial-sounding cracks.†   (source)
  • It was laid down over ten thousand years ago by retreating glaciers.†   (source)
  • We crept at glacier speed for several miles, and by the time the traffic thinned out on the M4 and we picked up speed, I was slippery with sweat.†   (source)
  • Streams flowed down the mountains from stolid glaciers and glistening snowpacks.†   (source)
  • It was dark, but there was a tungsten lamp not too far along the corridor, and if anyone was to look directly down, he would see us, stiff and frozen like fossils in a glacier.†   (source)
  • Lightning exploded along the false horizon, illuminating icefields and glaciers.†   (source)
  • In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast's card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed.†   (source)
  • Rivers, hills, valleys, buttes, steppes, glaciers, swamps, mountains, prairies, chasms, seas, islands, people.†   (source)
  • The lake bed had been dug out by the southernmost advance of the Wisconsin glacier.†   (source)
  • Wallowa Lake itself is five miles long and one mile wide, formed, some say, by glaciers nine million years ago.†   (source)
  • We're moving, glacially though, so I have plenty of time to look, and it seems to me that I've seen that dress before, I've seen someone wearing it.†   (source)
  • Amy, of course, was a whirling dervish of doing—pack, store, toss—while I sifted through my father's things glacially.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, a glacial blue, swept over the three of them like a tracking searchlight.†   (source)
  • She turned her head and saw, a hand's breadth from her eyes, those other glacial eyes, that livid face, those lips petrified with fear, just as she had seen them in the crowd at Midnight Mass the first time he was so close to her, but now, instead of the commotion of love, she felt the abyss of disenchantment.†   (source)
  • Just then, the wind shook more fiercely through the trees around us, and it felt like it was blowing straight off a glacier.†   (source)
  • Chapter 9 — Minutes Like Glaciers.†   (source)
  • That meant keeping Jenny as still as a glacier.†   (source)
  • Black plastic reeds fringing two green, glacial pools.†   (source)
  • His eyes, still softened by sleep, were a crisp blue that made Alex think of glaciers and northern seas.†   (source)
  • These several histories were camouflaged in the jargon which, wave upon wave, rolled through the bar; were locked in a silence like the silence glaciers.†   (source)
  • Yet, time nevertheless moved glacially.†   (source)
  • But Bree found his bedroom eyes'glacier blue'and brooding demeanor quite the turn on.†   (source)
  • But unlike Helene, the Commandant exudes a deathly chill, as if her gray eyes and cut-glass features were carved from the underbelly of a glacier.†   (source)
  • They had been carved to this shape millennia before by the remorseless pressure of towering glaciers.†   (source)
  • He found sizable cities pixeled into mountain folds and saw black lakes high in the ranges, kettle holes formed by glacial drift.†   (source)
  • At eye level, we soared past hanging green glaciers, splintering under a tropical sun.†   (source)
  • And what the glaciers don't get the polar bears will."†   (source)
  • It was just one square room, in which I had arranged all my belongings, with a crude window in each wall so that by day the stifling desert air would have a chance to circulate, and with shutters to keep out the glacial wind that blew at night.†   (source)
  • It was as if a glacier was being born somewhere in the heart of the place, and its frozen tongues were squeezing out wherever there was an opening.†   (source)
  • As if my past life was revealed to be a waste, a gesture in slow motion, because what I considered scarce and precious was in fact plentiful and cheap, and what I counted as rapid progress turned out to be glacially slow.†   (source)
  • I'm staying at the Glacier Inn on Third Street."†   (source)
  • Cold drops of sweat moved at a glacier's pace down my spine ….†   (source)
  • She was close to Lake Anten in an area of rounded glacial moraines where fields alternated with small communities and dense woodland.†   (source)
  • It was colder than ice, as if it flowed from the ancient glacial heart of the mountain.†   (source)
  • And, even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.†   (source)
  • The questions filled in the glacial pauses while Doris decided which card to lay down.†   (source)
  • The glacial towers are majestic and deadly beautiful.†   (source)
  • Taps sounded by moonlight, by starlight, when owls swept low over the barracks, when the barracks looked as though it was carved from glaciers and the galleries looked like tiered cakes of gauzy ice.†   (source)
  • Philon's answer is as cool as those glacier-like eyes.†   (source)
  • In a month or two the really hard rains will come for eighteen hours a day and that waterfall will once again become tough as a glacier and wash away the road.†   (source)
  • MARY COOK works on the ground crew for an air taxi company in Gustavus, Alaska, a community of four hundred surrounded by Glacier Bay National Park.†   (source)
  • There were no mountains or trees to block the cold bite of the relentless eastern wind, carrying the frosty air from Reghed Glacier.†   (source)
  • '1 don't,' replied Harry Babcock flatly, his voice nearly glacial.†   (source)
  • The man in back was long and lanky, with pale, bloodless skin and eyes the color of glacial ice.†   (source)
  • These barren land eskers are the inverted beds of long-vanished rivers which once flowed through and over the glaciers that, ten thousand years ago, covered the Keewatin Barrens to a depth of several thousand feet.†   (source)
  • Far off were the mountains, where power and beauty dwelt, where the thunder sported above the glaciers and the air was clear and keen.†   (source)
  • In the later, emended (and, I am convinced, truthful) version of her story she told me she felt no real bereavement over the seizure of her father and husband—she was by this time too alienated from both of them for it to affect her deeplybut she was forced to feel on another level shock that hammered at her bones, glacial fear and a devastating sense of loss.†   (source)
  • The highways eight lanes wide cut like glaciers through the uneasy land.†   (source)
  • In the valley below him, beyond the house and barns, beyond the tamaracks--in the yellowgreen valley that thousands of years ago had been a glacial river, graveyard of fantastic beasts--his black and white cows were sitting in the shade of the maple trees at the corner of the pasture.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL turns a look o f glacial coldness upon RICH) RICH I'm sorry, Secretary, I'd forgotten he was there that night.†   (source)
  • She was not content with such a glacial rate of progress.
  • I've got a thousand glaciers poised and ready to roll over Africa!"†   (source)
  • That way everybody could head south and get away from the glaciers.†   (source)
  • Time dragged, the minutes moving at the speed of glaciers.†   (source)
  • The trees on the mountains gave way to thick glaciers, blue and white under the sun.†   (source)
  • My crampons crunched reassuringly into the glacier's rind.†   (source)
  • Blue glaciers sat between the summits like frozen rivers.†   (source)
  • Our route to the summit would follow the Khumbu Glacier up the lower half of the mountain.†   (source)
  • The movement of the glacier in the Icefall has been measured at between three and four feet a day.†   (source)
  • A section of the wall calved like a glacier.†   (source)
  • Glacier-cold wind swept into the Mercedes, but Bes stepped out wearing nothing but his Speedo.†   (source)
  • Hazel remembered the Hubbard Glacier in Alaska—how the surface had cracked under their feet.†   (source)
  • I tried to attack but I was moving at the speed of a glacier.†   (source)
  • When it was opened by the giant, the chest gave off a glacial exhalation.†   (source)
  • With the door open, the glacial breeze was raising goose bumps on my arm.†   (source)
  • The Glacier Queen doesn't ignore me, exactly.†   (source)
  • Soon after, a boy broke his arm in a fall, and then Southwell drowned in a glacier stream.†   (source)
  • The lobby had great paintings and photographs of glaciers and ice floes.†   (source)
  • 'I say, "Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"†   (source)
  • Glacier light arising from blue ice is blinding and cool.†   (source)
  • And, lastly, there was a tall, lanky man with pale bloodless skin and eyes the color of glacial ice.†   (source)
  • His eyes were blue-white, like core samples from a glacier, and just as cold.†   (source)
  • My face went Arctic, diving deep freeze, glacier blue.†   (source)
  • A finger of warm wax was puddling out across the Bay of Seals, slow as a glacier.†   (source)
  • Ever eastward, toward the Reghed Glacier and a place called Evermelt.†   (source)
  • Even in the sun, the wind was glacial, and the wet made the cold actually painful.†   (source)
  • Glacier was gangs-zhing, avalanche rdo-rut.†   (source)
  • The entire ghostly army had him surrounded, gradually forcing him toward the edge of the glacier.†   (source)
  • "The Milkwater flows from a great lake at the foot of a glacier," Stonesnake put in.†   (source)
  • The blade radiated a cold deeper than the Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • Percy had gone over the side of the glacier to save them.†   (source)
  • The shells land on the glacier to the west, and we can't even see them explode.†   (source)
  • By the snout of the Biafo Glacier, the rain stopped.†   (source)
  • They climbed onto Anion and sped back toward Glacier Bay.†   (source)
  • "The glacier line, then," Alessandro answered.†   (source)
  • Each of the men fixed his own tomar in place, then stepped onto the glacier.†   (source)
  • He knew roughly where they were going, but there were no signs or markers on top of the glacier.†   (source)
  • There were the hanging green glaciers of Rakaposhi, splintering under a tropical sun.†   (source)
  • Water from a glacial stream was heated over huge fir logs that crackled like rifle shots.†   (source)
  • A half a mile away stood Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • It gets as white and hard as glacial ice.†   (source)
  • Look, from Seward, the Hubbard Glacier is down here somewhere.†   (source)
  • If she failed, she might wipe Hubbard Glacier off the map and kill her friends.†   (source)
  • Frank gazed at the clouds above the glacier.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the glacier kept crumbling, the edge getting closer and closer.†   (source)
  • "So Alcyoneus is on a glacier," she said.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and ran inland across the top of the glacier, leaping a chasm fifty feet across.†   (source)
  • Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay—a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier.†   (source)
  • But the glacier is farther than I thought.†   (source)
  • He looked around for his iron staff, which was still back at Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • That's the closest town to the Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • He located Hubbard Glacier, which looked discouragingly far away from Seward.†   (source)
  • Even Hazel, who'd seen glaciers before, couldn't quite process what she was looking at.†   (source)
  • And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery.†   (source)
  • In the second or so it took for him to take in what she had said, Harry's insides had become glacial.†   (source)
  • One day it was still cold spring, with gusting showers and chilly white clouds remote above the glacial blue of the lake; then suddenly the daffodils withered, the tulips burst open and turned inside out as if yawning, then dropped their petals.†   (source)
  • Transparent mountain ranges of data, endless glaciers of ROMworks, access ganglia spreading like fissures, iron clouds of semisentient internal pro:ess bubbles, glowing pyramids of primary source stuff, each guarded by lakes of black ice and armies of black-pulse pilages.†   (source)
  • Buffeting gusts of wind, which had initially slowed him, now shortened the time it took to traverse the mini glacier that was thickening beneath his feet.†   (source)
  • We just want the necklace back:' Instinctively, Jenny and I began to circle him from opposite directions, moving with glacial slowness.†   (source)
  • Despite being "out of fashion," not only do they add beauty to our daily lives, they lend material credibility to our presumption that the passing of an era will be glacial.†   (source)
  • The problem was that while the majority of these rivers flowed into India, Pakistan, and Indochina, the glacial watersheds were located entirely within Tibet, a part of China.†   (source)
  • Some of the rock that had been scooped out had also been pulverized by the glacial action, turned into sand, and now made a small sand beach that went down to the edge of the water in front and to the right of the overhang.†   (source)
  • He removed his rubber boots carefully and left them on the back porch — Myra has him well trained, he's not allowed to track what she calls his dirt onto what she calls her carpets — then tiptoed in his mammoth socks across my kitchen floor; which, thanks to the energetic scourings and polishings of Myra's woman, is now as slick and treacherous as a glacier.†   (source)
  • My library looks out on the glaciers and green skies of Nordholm while a walk of ten paces allows me to descend a short stairway to my tower study, a comfortable, open room encircled by polarized glass which offers a three-hundred-sixty-degree view of the highest peaks of the Kushpat Karakoram, a mountain range two thousand kilometers from the nearest settlement in the easternmost reaches of the Jamnu Republic on Deneb Drei.†   (source)
  • India and China had been quietly squaring off over the water contained in the Himalayas, the glaciers there containing over three thousand cubic miles of fresh water, nearly as much as the combined Great Lakes.†   (source)
  • On Madan's third attempt) however, he settled the Squirrel shakily onto the glacier with its tail hanging over a bottomless crevasse.†   (source)
  • At around 20,000 feet, where the glacier emerged from the lower end of the Cum, it pitched abruptly over a precipitous dro .†   (source)
  • As dawn washed the darkness from the sky, the shattered glacier was revealed to be a three-dimensional landscape of phantasmal beauty.†   (source)
  • The glacier's continual and often violent state of flux added an element of uncertainty to every ladder crossing.†   (source)
  • As the glacier inched over humps and dips in the Cum's underlying strata, it fractured into countless vertical fissures-crevasses.†   (source)
  • Sheer rock buttresses seamed with ice pressed in from both edges of the glacier, rising like the shoulders of a malevolent god.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later Makalu Gall appeared, having been dragged down the glacier on a piece of plastic by a half-dozen Sherpas.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes down the glacier from our tents, their camp was clustered atop a hump of glacial debris.†   (source)
  • Breashears and company hustled him down the glacier at such a fast pace that in my own woeful state, I could barely keep up with them.†   (source)
  • I tramped out of camp by headlamp behind Rob and Frank, wending between ice towers and piles of rock rubble to reach the main body of the glacier.†   (source)
  • At 21,300 feet, Camp Two consisted of some 120 tents scattered across the bare rocks of the lateral moraine along the glacier's edge.†   (source)
  • It was apparent almost immediately that they weren't very familiar with the standard tools and techniques of glacier travel.†   (source)
  • It was nevertheless extremely dangerous flying, at the limit of the aircraft's range, and one of the Italian machines had crashed on the glacier.†   (source)
  • A couple of miles farther, the glacier made a sharp turn to the east, we plodded to the crest of a long slope, and spread before us was a motley city of nylon domes.†   (source)
  • A bergschrund is a deep slit that delineates a glacier's upper terminus; it forms a steep body of ice slides away from the steeper wall immediately above, leaving a gap between glacier and rock.†   (source)
  • Tenzing, we later learned, had been scouting the route above Camp One, climbing a relatively gentle section of the Khumbu Glacier with four other Sherpas.†   (source)
  • For the next three hours I slogged steadily up the glacier, pausing only to drink from my water bottle and replenish the snow supply in my hat as it melted into my matted hair.†   (source)
  • Earlier in the day, Fischer was descending from Camp Two to Base Camp when he encountered one of his Sherpas, Ngawang Topche, sitting on the glacier 41 at 21,000 feet.†   (source)
  • Hoping to find level terrain higher on the glacier, I promptly ran into Beck being short-roped down the Cum by Athans, Burleson, Gustafsson, Breashears, Viesturs, and the rest of the IMAX crew.†   (source)
  • While working as a junior instructor on a NOLS course in the Wind River Range he plunged 70 feet, unroped, to the bottom of a crevasse on the Dinwoody Glacier.†   (source)
  • Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier's terminal moraine, overlookg the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.†   (source)
  • It stormed through the night; in the morning when I crawled out of the shelter I shared with Doug, more than a foot of fresh snow blanketed the glacier.†   (source)
  • The magazine's intent was not that I climb the peak; the editors simply wanted me to remain in base camp and report the story from the East Glacier, at the foot of the Tibetan side of the mountain.†   (source)
  • The route climbed up and down the unsettled rocks of the Khumbu Glacier's lateral moraine for several miles, then dropped down onto the glacier itself.†   (source)
  • For the next two hours we ascended an incline pitched as gently as a beginner's ski slope, eventually arriving at the bergschrund that delineated the Khumbu Glacier's upper end.†   (source)
  • Meltwater sluiced furiously down innumerable surface and subterranean channels, creating a ghostly harmonic rumble that resonated through the body of the glacier.†   (source)
  • As soon as Madan's skids lifted from PU the glacier, he nosed the aircraft forward, dropped like a stone over the lip of the Icefall, and disappeared into the shadows.†   (source)
  • His camp, distinguished by a huge Starbucks Coffee promotional banner suspended from a house-size block of granite, was situated just five minutes' walk down the glacier from ours.†   (source)
  • In a New Zealand television interview following the expedition, Hall somberly described how he took their favorite climbing rope and lowered Ball's body into the depths of the glacier.†   (source)
  • By mid-May he had reached the head of the East Rongbuk Glacier at 21,000 feet, where he plundered a supply of food and equipment cached by Eric Shipton's unsuccessful 1933 expedition.†   (source)
  • The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cum, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoeshaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier.†   (source)
  • They radioed their Base Camp on the Rongbuk Glacier to say they were on top, whereupon the leader of the expedition, Mohindor Singh, placed a satellite telephone call to New Delhi and proudly reported the triumph to Prime Minister Narashima Rao.†   (source)
  • On the evening of April 7, however a breathless runner arrived in Lobuie with a disturbing message from Base Camp: Tenzing, a young Sherpa employed by Rob, had fallen 150 feet into a crevasses gaping crack in the glacier.†   (source)
  • As I waited for Rob to lead the way, the ice underfoot emitted a series of loud cracking noises, like small trees being snapped in two, and I felt myself wince with each pop and rumble from the glacier's shifting depths.†   (source)
  • As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.†   (source)
  • By the time the first sunlight struck the glacier was at 20,000 feet, in the maw of the Western Cum, grateful that the Icefall was below me and that I would have to go through it only one more time, on the final trip down.†   (source)
  • Long before we'd even arrived at Base Camp, a team of Sherpas employed by Duff had blazed a zigzag path through the seracs, stringing out more than a mile of rope and installing some sixty aluminum ladders over the broken surface of the glacier.†   (source)
  • A helicopter evacuation was requested for Wednesday morning, April 24, but clouds and snow squalls made a flight impossible, so Ngawang was loaded into a basket and, under Hunt's care, carried down the glacier to Pheriche on the backs of Sherpas.†   (source)
  • Hiking up the rock-strewn ice of the East Rongbuk Glacier, he initially made fair progress, but as his ignorance of glacier travel caught up to him, he repeatedly lost his way and became frustrated and exhausted.†   (source)
  • The temperature had been brutally cold when we set out from Camp one, turning my hands into stiff, aching claws, but as the first of the sun's rays struck the glacier, the ice-spackled walls of the Cum collected and amplified the radiant heat like a huge solar oven.†   (source)
  • On Saturday, April 6, a few hours above Pheriche, we arrived at the lower end of the Khurnbu Glacier, a twelve-mile tongue of ice that flows down from the south flank of Everest and would serve as our highway-I hoped mightily-to the summit.†   (source)
  • The sun was bright when the last of my teammates pulled into Camp One, but by noon a scum of high cirrus had blown in from the south; by three o'clock dense clouds swirled above the glacier and snow pelted the tents with a furious clamor.†   (source)
  • As I nervously threaded my way through the frozen, groaning disorder, I noticed that my breathing wasn't quite as labored as it had been during our first trip up the glacier; already my body was starting to adapt to the altitude.†   (source)
  • Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst journey in the World, an account of Robert Falcon Scott's doomed 1912 expedition to the South Pole rriving at the bottom of the Khumbu Icefall on Monday morning, May 13, I came down the final slope to find Ang Tshering, Guy Cotter, and Caroline Mackenzie waiting for me at the edge of the glacier.†   (source)
  • A collection of low, tumbledown buildings huddled against the elements at the edge of the Khurnbu Glacier, Lobuie was a grim place, crowded with Sherpas and climbers from a dozen different expeditions, German trekkers, herds of emaciated yaks-all bound for Everest Base Camp, still a day's travel up the valley.†   (source)
  • Passing through the towering ice pinnacles of Phantom Alley we entered the rock-strewn valley floor at the bottom of a huge amphitheater … Here [the Icefall] turned sharply to flow southward as the Khumhu Glacier We set up our Base Camp at 17,800 feet on the lateral moraine that formed the outer edge of the turn.†   (source)
  • Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier, At 20,500 feet, the altitude was deemed too high for safe evacuation by helicopter-the air was too insubstantial to provide much lift for a helicopter's rotors, making landing, taking off, or merely hovering unreasonably hazardous-so he would have to be carried 3,000 vertical feet to Base Camp down the Khumbu Icefall, some of the steepest, most treacherous ground on the entire mountain.†   (source)
  • I huffed toward the relative security of the serac's crest with all the haste I could muster, but Three-foot long aluminum stakes called pickets were used to anchor ropes and ladders to snow slopes; when the terrain was hard glacial ice, 'ice screws' were employed: hollow, threaded tubes about ten inches long that were twisted into the frozen glacier, since I wasn't acclimatized my fastest pace was no better than a crawl.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes down the glacier from our tents, their camp was clustered atop a hump of glacial debris.†   (source)
  • The escarpments above camp were draped with hanging glaciers, from which calved immense ice avalanches that thundered down at 25 all hours of the day and night.†   (source)
  • Thomas F. Hornbein Everest: The West Ridge rom Lukla the way to Everest led north through the crepuscular gorge of the Dudh Kosi, an icy, boulder-choked river that churned with glacial runoff.†   (source)
  • I huffed toward the relative security of the serac's crest with all the haste I could muster, but Three-foot long aluminum stakes called pickets were used to anchor ropes and ladders to snow slopes; when the terrain was hard glacial ice, 'ice screws' were employed: hollow, threaded tubes about ten inches long that were twisted into the frozen glacier, since I wasn't acclimatized my fastest pace was no better than a crawl.†   (source)
  • Without doubt, it was the best stuff I'd ever had—with the sweetness of honey, the richness of chocolate, and the coolness of glacier ice, yet it tasted unlike any of those.†   (source)
  • There was a great crashing noise, the sound of shattering ice, a glacier breaking—and then the lake seemed to blow apart, silver water exploding upward like a reverse hailstorm.†   (source)
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