hanging glacier

He waved his hand at the hanging glaciers and snowcapped mountains.

Two unnamed "hanging glaciers" are located to the east and northeast of the summit.

Most of Georgia's 688 glaciers are either classified as valley or hanging glaciers.

We saw hanging glaciers, ice fields and, then, like a mirage in the distance, our first big bergs.

Upon reaching the escarpment with its hanging glaciers, we must choose which icefall to ascend.

The escarpments above camp were draped with hanging glaciers, from which calved immense ice avalanches that thundered down at all hours of the day and night.

The hanging glaciers and snow slopes pose a large risk of avalanches, especially in the case of a storm, adding to the objective danger of the route.

The Kinshofer route does not ascend the middle of the Diamir Face, which is threatened by avalanches from massive hanging glaciers.

Peaks of the Chugach Mountains, along with several hanging glaciers can be seen from the road; Portage Glacier itself is out of view.

Gold Harbour Gold Harbour offers some of the most spectacular scenery of the voyage with its alpine landscape and hanging glaciers.

Hanging glaciers (i.e. glaciers perched on steep slopes) often discharge themselves over steep rock-faces, the snout breaking off at intervals.

In place of Lake Oeschenin we now saw sloping meadows backed by a wall of great mountains robed with hanging glaciers, gleaming white above the green meadows.

As we ascend, the valley widens affording views of the many snow-capped peaks and hanging glaciers before reaching camp in the vicinity of Chumik (4500 metres).

A magnificent glacier network lies below, with the huge Gorner and Grenz glaciers sweeping around the Monte Rosa, fed by half a dozen hanging glaciers.

It was so named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, following their survey of 1948-49, because of the continuous avalanches from the hanging glaciers above the corrie.

Small villages along a windswept lagoon line the way to Queulat National Park and the trip continues south past hanging glaciers to valleys of the Andes Mountains before ending in Coyhaique.

From here the trail continues across the alpine slopes to the spectacular camp of Lakong (4470 metres) with fine views of the snow capped peaks and hanging glaciers at the head of the valley.

He was still immured in misery, his slight body hunched in an untidy lotus posture while he seemed to contemplate the precipitous foreslope, which reared above them like a petrified tsunami wave crested with hanging glaciers.

The area has four major geological features, the Andean uplift formed by Granits, the hanging glaciers and glacial erosional valleys, the Permian formation with its singular colors: red, ochre, and turquoise and the Cretaceous, limestone forests.

At dawn and dusk, "the copper colored rock of Mount Kamet reflecting the oblique rays of the sun on its hanging glaciers appears to set these glaciers aglow with crackling flames and bathes the mountain in a red burning glow".

-Leon-Portilla; Cantares Mexicanos PART I The Northman The land is raw, empty desert, its backdrop a mountain range miles to the north whose peaks are mantled with snow and veined with hanging glaciers.

Glacier ice accumulation occurs through accumulation of snow and other frozen precipitation, as well as through other means including rime ice (freezing of water vapor on the glacier surface), avalanching from hanging glaciers on cliffs and mountainsides above, and re-freezing of glacier meltwater as superimposed ice.