The Russian complaints about their treatment in the ice hockey and cross-country are arguably less concrete.
The rope tangled around Ben Yehuda's legs, threatening to bury him in the ice crack as well.
"A lot of people thought we'd be crushed like a beer can in the ice, " he says.
Crossing a medial moraine, we reach a pothole in the ice with a stream plunging into it.
Until recently, it was thought that any melting going on in the ice caps was fairly gentle.
One of the tourists, Frank Mulliez, 27, a French entrepreneur, finds a frozen frog in the ice cooler.
Scientists measure historic carbon dioxide concentrations by, for example, locating trapped bubbles in the ice of ancient glaciers.
After narrowly avoiding my unpleasant swim in the ice-cold Firth, I returned to my spot in that cleft in the rock.
The eruption began March 20 beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland, blowing a hole in the ice.
The problem is that they heavily notated, that those figures EXCLUDE major changes in the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
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He even brought some Boston water all the way to Vancouver and poured it in the ice before decisive Game Seven.
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Where there is a risk tractors usually have a radar probe protruding in front of them looking for cracks in the ice.
There were no eggs in the ice cream itself, but the mixture was transported in lorries that had previously carried liquid eggs.
The breaks in the ice allow it to absorb more solar radiation.
Frank Mulliez, 27, a member of the billionaire French family behind the Auchan retail empire, finds a frozen frog in the ice cooler.
Last year, so many bears arrived that Mr. Clark said he paid an employee at a nearby deli to stash three in the ice freezer.
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That information, according to the NASA statement, can help predict how changes in the ice sheet will contribute to a potential global rise in sea levels.
Without the flight measurements, "we would be blind" to changes in the ice sheet, said the mission leader, Seelye Martin of the University of Washington in Seattle.
"Certainly this is not the passage of John Franklin, " a British explorer whose 1845 mission ended in the deaths of 129 men after their two ships were lost in the ice.
This has enabled scientists to estimate the volume of water in the ice cap and speculate that much of the planet's original water is either hidden below the surface or missing.
And in Greenland, scientists suspect the melt waters that drain through holes, or moulins, in the ice cap to the bedrock may have contributed to the speed-up of glaciers in that region, too.
The 68-mile route to the fishing town of Ullapool is a relatively recent addition to a landscape forged in the Ice Age, when melting glaciers gouged its long, deep valleys and seawater-filled lochs and fjords.
Oil company manager Kaspars Skrabans said he was down at the beach by Jurmala with his family when he noticed that a crack had appeared in the ice extending from the shore out into the gulf.
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The search was hampered, Dr. Grokhovsky said, by officials of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, which sealed off the area around an 25-foot-wide hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, where a chunk was believed to have fallen.
Dr. Grokhovsky said the search was hampered by officials of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, which sealed off the area around an 8-meter-wide hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul, near Chelyabinsk, where a chunk of the meteor was believed to have fallen.
To succeed, he will have to travel some 700 miles in temperatures cold enough to freeze the fluid in his nose and eyes, pulling the equivalent of two Sumo wrestlers up and down steep ridges while trying to avoid lethal gaps in the ice.
After warming up in a Finnish sauna -- a national tradition -- guests don socks for a 50m, often naked run through the snow to a manmade hole in the ice, where they can safely use a step ladder to dip in the icy lake waters below.
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