A closer look revealed that its surface was composed of small slabs of sea ice pushed together by persistent winds.
I ran up to the ice, pushed off with one foot, and glided to the steps without falling.
The compacted ice pushes the fragile shelf closer to collapse by allowing meltwater to pool on its surface.
But his 6-year-old grandson was on the ice, pushing a chair to avoid falling, the traditional Dutch way of teaching children to skate.
That impression, some scientists and environmentalists say, is simply a matter of the bear's greater visibility, as shrinking ice pushes them closer to Inuit communities.
These guys [the Franklin crew] went down Victoria Strait, they got stuck irrefutably, I think in the most forbidding, awful part of the Arctic, where the ice pushes down they just got stuck in the ice.
As a result, the station itself was on the move, shifting up to several miles a day as the polar ice, pushed by winds and currents, slowly drifted over the point at which the world turns.
Today, he worked out his frustration on the ice, pushing himself to be ready for Sunday, when he will rejoin his defensive partner, Ken Daneyko, in trying to stop Pavel Bure and the rest of the Panthers.
At the bottom of the glacier, seated on wooden benches and huge boulders from the moraine that the ice pushes along as effortlessly as pebbles, we were kitted out with spikes -- metal snowshoes with jagged soles -- by our guides, Mariano Agriello and Lucía.
