I'm thinking of a 300-mile-long, 700-foot-tall wall constructed out of solid ice that's meant to keep ice creatures at bay.
He and Vastra travel to Simeon's lab, where the Doctor notes the Intelligence's plan to replace humanity with ice creatures and holds up the tin with the necessary DNA.
Once upon a time, having sex to a backdrop of dragons and swords and humanoid ice creatures was something that happened within the pages of a paperback you'd never admit to reading.
Following the tunnels, Samus travels to the Phendrana Drifts, a cold, mountainous location which is home to an ancient Chozo ruin, a Space Pirate research labs used to study Metroids, ice caves and valleys home to electrical and ice-creatures.
The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs provides visitors with a look at an active archaeological dig where the remains of scores of mammoths and other Ice Age creatures are studied on-site.
It feels like a bundle of trimmings from his Tree of Life – a rapturous assemblage of volcanoes, ice floes, creatures of the deep, the odd CGI dinosaur and an extended sequence showing the life of primitive man, like a slightly less hirsute sequel to the opening of Kubrick's 2001.
While the movie's imaginative flights, its visions of ecological apocalypse and furry ice-age creatures come from its precocious heroine, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), it's the little girl's ailing father, Wink, played by Dwight Henry, who provides its anguished heart.
Over 3 decades, that family would be responsible for destroying more than an American football field's worth of ice a tangible threat to ice-dependent creatures such as polar bears.
The eye immediately grasps that the ice is a creature on the move, positively bursting ahead, while also not appearing to move at all, like a still photo of a rushing river.
The scientists on the Lance are measuring everything from the weather to the ice to the creatures beneath it.
