Sentence examples for glacier from inspiring English sources

Not long ago this whole panorama would have been filled by the glacier, which has retreated rapidly away, even in the decades since it was first photographed.

"Everything is strewn all over the glacier," Cienski said in a video dispatch recorded on Monday as helicopters flew overhead.

The bottle is, now as then, the answer and I join the crew at the departure point where they are serving whisky on the rocks, the rocks being enormous lumps of ice that were formerly part of the Marinelli glacier.

He found an island, 160 metres long, in a remote part of the Svalbard archipelago that had never been mapped – indeed, it had been revealed only through the retreat of a glacier.

Best enjoyed after a day at Perito Moreno glacier, or the Laguna Nimez bird reserve, on the edge of town and with wonderful views over Lago Argentino.

Stop off at the magnificent Perito Moreno glacier and visit the stunning Torres del Paine national park.

One morning we woke up to find ourselves at the end of a fjord in front of the enormous Serrano glacier, whose blueish hues became gradually more visible as the daylight grew.

This spring the photographer Dominick Tyler is publishing Uncommon Ground, which pairs 100 place words with 100 photographs of the phenomena to which the words refer, from arête ("a sharp-edged mountain ridge, often between two glacier-carved corries") to zawn (a Cornish term for a "wave-smashed chasm in a cliff").

The exhilarating boat trip, lasting 36 hours, took me across the notoriously stormy Straits of Magellan, through the glacier-lined Beagle Channel, and to places where Darwin had concluded that life barely existed at all.

The approach to the ice cave crosses a glacier-turned-rubbish-dump, strewn with plastic, paper, tins, drinks cartons and mounds of waste half buried in the ice.

The west coast, one of the most beautiful areas of the Antarctic, is usually free of ice during the austral summer from November to March, and is famed for its pristine, glacier-clad peaks, glistening icebergs, pack ice and wildlife.