Most visitors take in the giddy view and then turn back without ever setting foot on the glacier.
But up here the sun shines on the glacier, and fresh snow glistens in the intense, equatorial light.
The irregular distribution and thickness of tephra provoked differential ablation, and tephra remobilization processes took place on the glacier surface.
This season, I started in October on the glacier in Saas Fee, Switzerland and plan to finish in Tignes, France, in May.
Tephra deposition on the glacier surface was the most frequent process.
"But, ' adds Mel Reasoner, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative, "in many arid and semi-arid areas, people are dependent not only on the amount of glacier melt water, but on the timing of the water flow.
On the mainland, the glacier-covered cone of the Cerro Macau volcano peeked above the cloud and the straggly fishing port of Puerto Montt came into view.
One theory is that the summer sun melts ice on the surface of the glacier which creates pools of water which then flow into moulins -- narrow tubular shafts in the glacier.
Pakistani troops, along with alleged "freedom fighters, " infiltrated Indian territory and captured mountains above a vital road used to supply India's troops on the Siachen Glacier, where they have been battling Pakistan since 1984.
The Franz Josef glacier on the west side of the Southern Alps of New Zealand advanced sharply during the period of the Little Ice Age, actually invading a rain forest at its maximum extent in the early 1700s.
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Recognising that global warming will make any line based on the watershed of a glacier temporary, the understanding with Austria has for the first time introduced the concept of a movable border.
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Then there are the slip-slides on this glacier (see The Fallen).
Not all of the water was the same as some escaped to the ocean or was refrozen on to the base of the glacier.
Alex Hartley and 18 volunteers excavated about six tonnes of material from an island exposed by a glacier on the Svalbard peninsula in Norway.
Racers expect to hit speeds of 100kph at the top of the course which includes a steep face on the top half at Glacier Bowl.
They say they came up with the name Kiger after the glacier-cut Kiger Gorge on Steens Mountain, near the horses' territory.
The ancient towns of Dali and Lijiang, the glacier surrounded by green hills on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the markets with their sweet, sweet peaches all were as wondrous as she had promised.
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One-year measurements of surface heat budget on the ablation zone of Antizana Glacier 15, Ecuadorian Andes.
Two helicopters were moving toward the forward base on a glacier Saturday afternoon.
Around midday, we arrived a few hundred yards below the glacier, on what seemed like a Martian plateau gray sand, strange rocks, no evidence of sentient life.
The area's main lure has always been the chance to clamber on a glacier.
Aside from the crunch of crampons on ice, the only sound is meltwater running over the glacier surface in a perfect zigzag stream.
One plan under consideration calls for tractor traverses from the base on the coast at McMurdo to the pole via the newly established Leverett Glacier route to transport the cable.
The oil is so thick on the surface that ice from nearby Columbia glacier turned black.
This is the longest glacier in the Himalayas, stretching around 25km from its beginnings on the high slopes of Cho Oyu.
We fly over and land on Helheim Glacier, a major outlet for the ice sheet which has sped up dramatically in the last decade.
For example, the Northeast Glacier used to be buffered on to Stonington Island.
Parked directly on top of the mountain is a vast Ice Age glacier that Jules Verne, who never visited Iceland, neglected to mention in his novel.
But the aircraft encountered atrocious weather conditions over Greenland and, with fuel running low, the crews attempted a difficult landing on to a glacier.
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Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite's Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome suddenly appears against a backdrop of the snow-capped High Sierra.
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