"It starts out as regular valley but you keep going up and then you see these immense snow-capped peaks".
The route from Puerto Montt to Temuco takes in glowering volcanoes, immense lakes, snow-capped mountains, swathes of forest and unspoilt villages.
The wind had dumped an immense amount of snow on the tiny cabin, but Sink found the door to the lean-to entryway, and that would do to shelter Preacher.
Serial telecabines shift skiers as fast as buses can deposit them, to a mid-mountain concourse where the slopes fan out across an immense arena of snow and glacier ice.
This immense amount of snow -- and the retention and slow release of this winter precipitation long into the summer by glaciers -- is an important water source throughout the Western U.S. When the park was established in 1910, it had 150 glaciers.
The opening we found led to a rushing stream, which was running high because of the immense melt of heavy snows all winter and spring.
Immense rains in January, deep snow into May, cold north winds throughout the spring.
The view in all directions is an immense featureless flat plain of snow and ice.
The camera carefully follows the super on his errands, in his incompletely zipped-up coat and earflap hat, as he negotiates the immense and real heaps of plowed snow at every intersection.
As this winter continues to pummel the U.S. with cold snaps, ice storms and major snow events, there comes immense risk for widespread utility outages across the affected areas.
And Kipling is beginning to feel impatient with the "moral dry rot" masked by the winter snow and the land's immense natural wealth.
