Sentences with phrase «snow cave»
A "snow cave" is a shelter made by building a small room using snow as walls and a roof. It is used to protect people from the cold weather and keep them safe while they are outdoors. Full definition
Ice seals, one of the primary diets of polar bears, give birth in snow caves dug in sea ice during late springs.
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In the lee of a hillside on the least slide - prone slopewe can find in the dark, we dig a shallow snow cave and crawl in.
I like to believe that they were exceptionally well designed, architecturally sound, play structures, never mind the possibility of broken bones or being buried in a snow cave!
I'm sure it was a good way to keep us occupied during snow days — particularly my brother Eric, who had a tendency to build dangerous structures when no one was looking (that high - speed luge was really fun, though, as were the snow caves).
On a very narrowpinnacle of rock that extends farther than the others from the canyon rim, wedig a snow cave.
We sleep as ifdrugged for the next 30 hours and still feel the need for rest, but the saggingroof of the snow cave encourages a hasty departure, and there is no point inprocrastinating with 20 tons of snow suspended eight inches above our noses.Before we leave I cook up some macaroni and cheese — our first hot meal in fourdays — and we gorge ourselves with water.
It sometimes feels harder than climbing a mountain in a snowstorm with an ice axe, and building a snow cave to protect myself for the night!
Hundreds of ice cores taken from around the world will be stored for several centuries in a snow cave at -54 °C in Antarctica, at the Concordia station, which is run by the French Polar Institute (IPEV) and the Italian Antarctic Research program (PNRA).
Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.
As Chen Zhen looked through the telescope from his hiding place in the snow cave, he saw the steely gaze of a Mongolian grassland wolf.
The herd of Mongolian gazelles was grazing on a nearby slope, unaware of the wolf pack, which was tightening the noose, drawing closer to the men's snow cave.
Because Jim had brought along the small shovel Josephine had given him as a present, they were able to build a snow cave to keep out of the wind.
Features include a vitamin and champagne bath, an oriental steam bath, snow caves, a hamman and a thalasso pool.
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If a burglar swipes your tablet or snow caves in your roof, homeowners insurance kicks in; if you die and your heirs need help paying the mortgage, your policy does nothing.