Sentence examples for glacier wall from inspiring English sources

Just before Shadow Bay, where the glacier wall rears into sight, a couple of tour buses parked and spewed out a group of about 30 Italian and Dutch tourists eager to make the most of the photo opportunity.

With the breeze chilling our ears we watched, enchanted, as the pale sun played peekaboo from behind the fast-moving clouds, sending ever-changing shapes racing like giant shadow boxers across the sheer glacier wall.

We might have been scathing about snap-happy tourists moments earlier, but once the boat began its 20-minute voyage along the 180-foot high glacier wall -- keeping a distance of about 900 feet, out of range of the ice shrapnel that flies in all directions when blocks of ice break off with a loud crack and tumble into the icy water -- we reached for our cameras like everybody else.

Think about that, in a world where time only flows downstream and the past is an unscalable glacier wall.

Back in the lab, the researchers ran simulations in a cylindrical tank mimicking the fjords, which are thin fingers of seawater that extend into land (and where the water meets the Helheim Glacier wall).

Using a helicopter as a sort of giant crane, Mr. Butler and Mr. Smoot execute elaborate moving shots that slowly and dramatically reveal new perspectives, rising over mountaintops to expose huge frozen valleys or darting between narrow glacier walls to break out on the vast expanse of the Weddell Sea.

Four separate chunks broke loose from one of Yosemite Valley's glacier-carved walls, a natural process called "exfoliation".

Eyjafjallajökull, English Eyjafjalla Glacier, glacier, southern Iceland.

Nearby, on the slopes of the eastern crater wall, the glacier touches one of the rock glaciers and the glacier is very close to merging with the other rock glacier.

In order to acclimatize, Madison and I strapped on our crampons and roped together for a spectacular climb up the Cerro glacier, a solid ice wall that lorded over the opposite end of the valley from Aconcagua.

In addition, since 2004, new glaciers have formed on the crater wall above Crater Glacier feeding rock and ice onto its surface below; there are two rock glaciers to the north of the eastern lobe of Crater Glacier.