Sentences with phrase «over glaciers»

This trip includes a helicopter flight over the glacier as well as a three - hour stay at the lake.

By 1993 and 1994, they were flying scientific grids over the glaciers.

Upon arrival there is an opportunity to take an optional helicopter flight over the glaciers for an unforgettable view.

There will be time this morning for an optional helicopter flight over the glacier (weather permitting) and then you are off again.

During the first week of the summer land ice campaign, IceBridge has also flown over glaciers along Greenland's northwest, southeast and southwest coasts, and also over lines that the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) flew over Greenland during its 2003 - 2009 period of operations, to observe how ice elevation has evolved since then.

Opt to take a helicopter ride and hike, walk over the glacier, or relax in the hot pools.

By darkening the insulating layer of snow over the glacier and causing it to melt earlier each year, soot exposed glacial ice to the sun's melting rays for a longer period every summer, they explain.

Hindu pilgrims made a trek over glaciers to a holy cave in the Himalayan mountains.

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulations over the glaciers, but would also expose over 90 % of the current glaciered area to melt in the warmer months.»

After a helicopter ride over glaciers and forest, he lands at a laboratory / residence that looks sort of like a Bond villain's lair as designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

We pick up with the dancing penguin, Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood), who is trying to get his young son, Erik (cutely voiced by the young Ava Acres), to embrace their dancing culture that is now practiced all over their glacier territory.

The only modifications to the Polar Expedition variants of the production Amarok Pickups, currently being sold in South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, and Europe, were long - travel heavy - duty shocks and huge tires with deep ridges to navigate the extreme amounts of snow and ice expected when driving over a glacier.

A day spent flightseeing over glaciers and ice fields is the perfect way to end your trip!

Custom - built for the spectacular, Norwegian Bliss features a revolutionary Observation Lounge for guests to soak in every stunning moment, from bald eagles soaring over glaciers to dolphins splashing through warm turquoise waters.

The grandeur of Stok Kangri peak loomed over the glacier valley and we couldn't help but imagine how would the peak summit be!

Explore the inside of volcanoes, clamber over glaciers, or simply soak in a thermal pool.

Time for an optional helicopter flight over the glacier then on to Franz Josef.

A British scientist proposed hanging white fabric over the glacier's ragged 10 - story - tall edges to block sunlight and stem the erosion.

Each terminates on land because total ablation over the glacier equals total accumulation at the terminus.

Only ICESat footprints over glaciers.

Average thinning over the glacier during the summer of 2006 declined to near zero, with some apparent thickening in areas on the main trunk.

(Huss calibrated his method in the European Alps, where scientists surveyed the ice by dragging a radar instrument over the glacier's surface to help determine the ice's thickness.)

You will dive deep beneath the oceans, get caught in a tropical rainstorm, become shaken by earthquakes, and even fly over glaciers.

Opt to take a helicopter ride and hike, walk over the glacier, or soak in hot pools amid the dramatic scenery.

Hindu pilgrims made a trek over glaciers to a holy cave in the Himalayan mountains.

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulation over the glaciers, but would also expose 90 % of the current glacier area to melt in the warmer months,» he says.

Joseph MacGregor, a University of Texas at Austin glacier researcher who was not involved in the study, said that in «undertaking challenging flights over these glaciers» the researchers have found a new way to predict how glaciers will thin in the future.

Vistas that look out over the glaciers or to the base of Torres Del Paine, a geologic uprising of three towers.

Scenic flights over the glaciers and Mt Cook are also available.

(Upon arrival into Fox Glacier there is opportunity to either take an optional guided walk to the glacier's terminal face or an optional exhilarating helicopter flight over the glacier) Both these options are at your own expense and are very weather dependant.

There are videos that depict travelling the famous Bergen train line for seven hours non-stop and flying over glaciers and fjords.

He approves of «glacier viewing» from a distance but is more sceptical of allowing tourists to walk over glaciers.