Down as far as Brig, the Rhone is a torrent; it then becomes a great mountain river running southwest through a glacier valley.
However, a glacier valley five miles downstream had a tilted meadow that looked flat enough.
He also described the presence of glacier valleys and associated the geologic features of the region with those seen in the Alpine geomorphology.
The area is for diverse habitats, ranging from prairies to glacier valleys to plateaus and well known for its dense forest.
On the east, there are high glacier valleys which end up in high plateaus (Altiplano).
Many of them had opened rose-like blooms like the one she'd planted in the glacier valley; a few were still half-open or tightly closed.
The glacier valley is through those trees, she told them.
In the glacier valley Lady Inoulia ordered work to start on the copper mine, naming it "the Firetamer".
The 20 km long valley of Aletsch on the south-east is completely uninhabited and also surrounded by other similar glacier valleys.
Sometimes a sound is produced by a glacier carving out a valley on the coast then receding, or the sea invading a glacier valley.