Sentence examples for snow fields from inspiring English sources

AT 6,670 feet on a bright winter day, the vast, sweeping snow fields of Switzerland's Oberalp Pass glistened.

Despite the unforgiving sun, a few, steep snow fields persisted from the winter and we carefully picked our way across, using walking sticks for balance.

One minute, I was rubbing shoulders with dot-com billionaires, oil industry barons and sleek investment bankers, in an Alpine village set among the pristine snow fields.

Those trails are closed this winter, but there are still 45 miles of groomed and open snow fields among towering, moss-draped hemlocks — plenty of room to race your partner and fulfill your Nordic gold-medal fantasies.

Canada is not a nation known for its summer sports – think Canadian sports and its ice hockey, curling and the vast snow fields of Whistler, not beach volleyball, athletics or fencing.

About 60,000 men were thought to have been killed in the avalanches, and bodies of those buried soldiers are still uncovered from thawing glaciers and snow fields in the Alps.

Through the last pass and down a long, steep snow field lie wide stretches of green.

Looking out, you'd have thought we were in a snow field — it was white in all directions, save for the black-and-red stern of the Yamal.

Now it is completely exposed; the rocks encrusted with white salt crystals are surrounded by shallow pink water in what looks like a vast snow field.

If you are lucky enough to be around for Easter weekend, your kids will have a blast taking part in an Easter egg hunt in a snow field.

A traveling show of the contemporary wildlife artist Robert Bateman, contains some haunting images, but many reveal an almost sentimental yearning for the snows, fields and forests of creaturely life.