Behind us were the glacier fields of Jichu Drake.
It was the first time we had seen Kilimanjaro in all her glory, glacier fields and all.
Tierra's biggest asset is location — Torres del Paine National Park is in its backyard — and, like the Singular, the hotel keeps a retinue of adventure experts who know practically every detail about the region's trails, ranches and glacier fields.
"It's a spectacular setting there; the cabin sits in a little bowl, just below a fairly large glacier field," said Patrick O'Leary, recreation planner for the Chugach National Forest's Seward Ranger District.
For instance, ads celebrate going ice fishing in an Alaskan glacier field rather than a local pond, "crossing the room like you own it" at a hot club and sailing away with friends after you "throw a dart at a map of the world and go where it lands".
In the Ross Sea, such an expansion has already occurred in response to receding glacial ice at the Beaufort Island colony, with an increase of 84%% in the Adélie penguin population between 1983 and 2010, concurrent with a 543 m retreat of the glacier field [ 65].
The park's physical features include glaciers, ice fields, steep mountains, and broad valleys.
Its expanse of glaciers, lava fields and mountains are alluring yet harsh and inhospitable.
Kehayoglou started making these landscapes — some of them pure white, others depicting trippy Patagonian glaciers and fields — shortly after finishing art school in 2008.
The weight of these opinions is such that every time I head out on a trip that involves the kind of skiing that can lead to trouble — glaciers, powder fields, steeps — a certain premonitory queasiness sneaks up on me.
