A mere seven minutes later, when cascading ice finally came to a stop ten miles down the mountain, it had taken the lives of 4,000 people.

仅仅7分钟后，当倾泻而下的冰终于在山下10英里处停住时，它已经夺走了4000人的生命。

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The constantly shifting Khumbu Icefall is like a bunch of ice cubes continually tumbling down the icy mountain wall.

持续变换的昆布冰川就像是一堆连续不断的从冰山墙上翻滚下来的冰块。

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"When the bottom of the mountain is summer, the top is spring and while the foothill is autumn, the top is covered with ice," local people say of the special climate of Shennongjia.

当地的人们这样形容神农架的特殊气候：“山脚下是夏天，山顶是春天，山脚下是秋天，山顶被冰雪覆盖。”

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As far as current global observations are concerned, Hansen cites both the decline of Arctic sea ice and the worldwide retreat of mountain glaciers as causes for major concern.

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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.

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He splashed over to the foot of the stairs and looked up at a ladder of water coming down, a scrim of ice on the edges like a mountain stream.

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