Bindschadler scouted locations for the expedition in 2008, when he became the first person to set foot on the crevasse-riddled Pine Island Glacier tongue.

在2008年宾薛得勒曾前来侦查要考察的地点，那时他是第一个涉足这满布裂缝的松岛冰川舌的人。

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In the 1960s, melt water began collecting at the foot of the glacier, creating Imja Tsho.

在二十世纪六十年代时，融化了的水开始在冰川脚下汇集，形成了Imja Tsho冰川湖。

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The 2,582-meter (9,357-foot) stratovolcano is mantled by a 30-square-kilometer (10-square-mile) glacier field, most of it amassed south and east of the summit in a basin made by a caldera depression.

这座高达2582米（9357英尺）的成层火山（百科看 这里——译注）顶部被一层30平方公里的冰川（10平方英里）所覆盖，大部分冰雪都积聚在山顶南部和东部因岩浆喷发所形成的盆地中。

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Most visitors take in the giddy view and then turn back without ever setting foot on the glacier.

BBC: The perfect trip: Switzerland

We're out of the helicopter, staring down the Big One, a 4, 500-foot run down a massive glacier by far the longest ski path I've ever seen.

WSJ: Heli-Skiing in Greenland

William Windham and Richard Pococke were transfixed by the grandeur of 15, 781-foot Mont Blanc and the four-mile-long glacier known as the Mer de Glace.

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