Standing in front of his locker after a recent skate at the team's Glendale facility, he was clearly the go-to guy for the news media, looking right at home in the center of the scrum, graciously answering reporters' questions with a smile and aw-shucks demeanor that runs counter to his rugged ice play.
From the stunning, rugged, ice blue landscapes of Southern Chile and Argentina, to the softly dusted roofs of Oxford, we want to see your snowscape photos, where ever they're from.
The rugged ice-covered area was discovered in 1935 by the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and his pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon during their aerial crossing of the continent and was named for the explorer's father.
One surprise was the discovery of the rugged water ice mountains in a dark, equatorial region next to a bright, heart-shaped region.
I have, I know, been accused of wanting to see sports, particularly the rugged game of ice hockey, reduced to a "feminized" condition.
Pluto, still smarting from its demotion to dwarf planet, nonetheless revealed itself to be a complex world, with a polar ice cap, rugged mountains, smooth plains, and reddish patches that recalled the surface of Mars.
Today, however, a range of newly popular active sports are reinvigorating the former battlefields, as travellers discover a world of ice-blue rivers, rugged hills and thick forests, which unfurls south from Karlovac to meet the vertiginous Velebit mountains that rise up towards the coast.
If all goes as planned, the technology left behind on and beneath the ice -- including compact, rugged, computer-controlled instruments similar to space probes -- will create the first continuous profile of changes in the air, ice and ocean depths at the pole itself.
Vast areas previously covered by Pleistocene ice sheets consist of rugged bedrock-dominated terrain of innumerable knolls and lake-filled rock basins – the 'cnoc-and-lochan' landscape or 'landscape of areal scour'.
The route to the Advanced Base Camp ABCC) is 22 km (12 miles) is rugged and has lots of boulders, ice and snow.
Rugged and mountainous and mostly covered with ice, the island is uninhabited by humans, although it is home to many birds and seals.
