For sheer remoteness and scenery, visit South Georgia, a narrow, 106-mile-long, snow-covered, glacier-strewn, unpopulated island with two majestic mountain ranges.

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Lahar floods are among the main hazards originated by ice and snow melting during eruptions of glacier-clad volcanoes.

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But up here the sun shines on the glacier, and fresh snow glistens in the intense, equatorial light.

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When you see the ice at the end of the glacier, you are looking at snow that fell up to 800 years ago.

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He is a serious man with a head full of snow-white hair, light skin, and glacier-blue eyes.

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Try skiing in July at the 2, 455m-high glacier Debeli Namet, fed year-round by avalanching snow.

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To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.

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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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