From snout of Franz Josef Glacier, Longitudinal crevasses where valley widens, transverse crevasses beyond where valley steepens, 2007.
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Many mornings it wants out, silver crevasses round the eyes.
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Vines dangle from trees and moss partially hides deep crevasses.
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Sure, it hurt—it stung in all of those familiar, unprepared crevasses.
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GPS can help, but could lead teams into areas with hidden crevasses.
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They would stick to the water bottle and the crevasses between my teeth.
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"They're going to know it's not okay" to throw stuff down crevasses, he says.
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Trump's leadership of the GOP has left some crevasses that create pitfalls for Republicans.
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Before his climb on Everest, Fogle had prepared himself for avalanches, earthquakes and crevasses.
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Local TV pictures showed huge landslides covering roads and rail routes, and crevasses in highways.
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But the whole mass doesn't slide at a uniform speed, causing cracks known as crevasses.
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" He continued, "It must crawl over downed trees and cross gaping crevasses in the pavement.
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"There are avalanches, ice fall, rock fall, crevasses — even altitude illness potential, " he tells CNBC.
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The snout of the remaining glacier hung above us, blue-grey and laced with crevasses.
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There are also yawning crevasses that appear beneath their feet in the spring, among other hazards.
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While shallow crevasses can form, faults do not open up during an earthquake, the USGS says.
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Fatalities usually occur because of people slipping on firm snow, falling off cliffs or into crevasses.
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Crevasses are one of a mountaineer's—and the people often drawn in to rescue them—biggest threats.
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Ice crevasses near the coast of West Antarctica from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane, Oct.
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In what's become known as the Great Flood of 21900, two hundred and twenty-six crevasses were reported.
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As he went he managed to escape the dangers of collapsing ice walls, strong winds and deep crevasses.
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As he went he managed to escape the dangers of collapsing ice walls, strong winds and deep crevasses.
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Azam, standing a thousand yards away, could see that they had wandered into an area riven by crevasses.
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Tiny, highly maneuverable robots like RoboFly could quickly flutter into crevasses where bigger aerial drones simply wouldn&apost fit.
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Instead of digging the full-size vacuum out of the closet, tackle crevasses and smaller messes with a handheld.
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Beneath your feet, caves, mines, and crevasses are filled with life that's dramatically different from the stuff on the surface.
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The poop dumping rules also create other problems: climbers throw the biodegradable bags into undesignated crevasses, which are too shallow.
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Those participating in the ice field expedition will cover roughly 30 miles picking their way around crevasses retracing Shackleton's route.
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Where a few hardy souls had first traversed, there were now single-file crevasses, filled with a melting, exhaust-tinged mire.
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By measuring how quickly these crevasses move toward the water's edge, the scientists can calculate how quickly the ice is flowing.
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The glaciers' rutted crevasses, or large cracks, formed as the ice flows toward the coast, can be seen in the foreground.
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My relief at a simple drive quickly flips, as the road reveals its numerous crevasses large enough to swallow my tires.
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The fabric was durable and the details in the photo — crevasses in a glacier; onlookers on a bridge — were nicely defined.
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The crystal glow of the ice cave, the shocking crevasses, the wildling-like climb of an ice wall—it's just awesome everywhere.
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The change in poop regulations comes after research has shown that feces dumped inside crevasses don't disintegrate, as it was originally thought.
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Secor's sculptural style involves sculpting the crevasses with paper and gesso, so her subjects stick out from the canvas and demand attention.
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When the light was flat, crevasses lurking and nothing before him but "white darkness", he remained aware of it, his silent companion.
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It's a death trap of crumbling ice columns with ladders suspended over bottomless crevasses, which are known for swallowing entire expedition teams.
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To walk on it was to risk immurement in crevasses cracked open for hundreds of metres down through blue and bluer ice.
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It is a world Full of dangers, hidden crevasses, avalanches, And so overwhelmingly beautiful they sometimes Wish they could die right there.
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Tracking the Neolithic thugs (led by the forbidding André Hennicke) responsible for the massacre, Kelab traverses treacherous ice sheets and narrow crevasses.
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"The North Col head wall is a 1,000-feet-plus vertical ice wall with dangerous crevasses, steep pitches and dangerous séracs," Earls said.
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In the sunlight, they would set off in rubber dinghies to explore the icy continent, taking in glaciers, plunging crevasses and penguin colonies.
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So, the utility of drones in glacier search and rescue operations is a given, though exploring crevasses seems to be relatively uncharted territory.
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Dr. Hamilton's team was working with an operations team to identify crevasses, some of which were found and filled earlier in the week.
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Sculptures made of clay, brass, mortar and cement suggest bodily forms, cavities and crevasses, as well as the constant presence of the artist.
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To carry that extra weight over deep crevasses with precipitous drops and erratic weather would put even more climbers in life-threatening binds.
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The raptors appeared to be imprisoning tiny birds in the crevasses of rocks in an effort to keep them fresh for a later meal.
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A cease-fire with Pakistan has been in place since 2003, but soldiers live in constant danger of frostbite, oxygen deprivation, hidden crevasses and avalanches.
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Based on the recent research, the National Park Service has decided to update its poop regulations: no more emptying the Clean Mountain Cans into crevasses.
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A helicopter trip onto the Fox Glacier reveals deep crevasses in the translucent blue ice and stunning ice caves through which guides take crampon-wearing tourists.
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The origin of this residue, which was found in the little fissures and crevasses of the tools, were confirmed through a matching process involving animal antibodies.
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Right now, climbers below 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) are allowed to empty those cans and toss the biodegradable bags down deep crevasses in the Kahiltna glacier.
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He was surveying a trail to find the crevasses that can make working on glacial ice so dangerous, and his snowmobile plunged into one of them.
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It has a thin nose that gets into all those annoying crevasses around the litter box, plus a couple of other attachments we frankly never use.
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You watched glaciers slide and crash at the tip of the earth, you floated on a rope into ice crevasses to catch the gleam and the groan.
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Just before hitting the slope in the Swiss Alps, skier Jamie Mullner tells his buddies that the crevasses at the bottom of the hill always sketch him out.
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You have to watch where you put your feet because there are deep crevasses in the tundra where the undercut blocks are beginning to separate from the island.
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Pooling water at the surface of the continent's ice shelves will drain down into cracks and crevasses and "force them open" until the ice shelf disintegrates, said Pollard.
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In other works, crevasses between pieces of plastic are roughly patched over with acrylic mediums, which can look like soil or clay dust clinging to a newly unearthed trophy.
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Henry Worsley's solo journey was a grueling and perilous one, as he faced the daily threat of hidden crevasses and violent storms that could trap him in his tent.
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The men's skis are covered in synthetic skins for better traction; working like glorified snowshoes, the skis help distribute weight in a way that avoids punching through deadly crevasses.
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Recovery operations have now been taking place yearly, but crews have a short window of time to do their work because shifting temperatures open up dangerous crevasses in the ice.
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That's because the weight of the liquid water can crack the ice; when water drains through the crevasses, it may freeze and expand, widening the cracks and fracturing the ice.
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Then there are the remains of a carefree and careless time, when the crevasses became dumps during the construction of cable-cars and ski lifts in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Security teams help scientists avoid falling into hidden crevasses, and, in the Arctic, teams arm themselves with rifles and sleep in fiberglass shelters to avoid becoming a meal for polar bears.
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Ladders tied together to form makeshift bridges are most commonly used to cross glacial crevasses, and both men will almost certainly have to cross ladders at some point during their climb.
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Which means it can be used not just to figure out what is happening in the dark, mysterious crevasses of your car's intestines… It also can be used to change things.
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A foot of new snow had fallen the night before, and spindrift whipped off La Meije, a sea of icy blue glaciers pocked by crevasses and cliffs unfurling down its flanks.
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The sipuncula consists of a group of 320 marine species that are found in mostly shallow waters, with some burrowing into sand or mud, or found in the crevasses between rocks.
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Roped together with climbing harnesses and kitted out with steel spikes on their hiking boots, Gulbranson and his team probe for cracks in the ice to avoid falling down deadly crevasses.
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Low-cost, durable, and small enough to fit into caves, lava tubes, icy crevasses, and other tight spots, PUFFERs have the potential to explore hazardous areas where other explorers dare not roll.
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PUFFER isn't only useful in space; on Earth, it could help scientists reach volcanic crevasses and other places where it's hard for traditional robots to go, and impossible for humans to reach.
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"Monk seals forage by shoving their mouth and nose into crevasses in coral reefs, under rocks, or into the sand," he said, and the eel may have latched on in self defense.
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He's fallen into crevasses in the Andes, and endured seventy-mile-per-hour winds atop a twenty-thousand-foot Peruvian peak, where a pair of Italian climbers were blown to their deaths.
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It's the most deadly section of Everest's Southern climbing route; a river of ice riddled with bottomless crevasses beneath a cliff of hanging glaciers (seracs) that sporadically break free and come crashing down.
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Researchers have found, for instance, that meltwater on the surface of ice sheets can open up crevasses that break apart ice shelves entirely, causing further destabilization and faster ice flow into the ocean.
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The production team creates the illusion of Count Zaroff's island — with its cavernous manor house and dramatic oceanside cliffs and crevasses — with all the expressionistic cinematic techniques available to filmmakers in the early 1930s.
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Gordon Hamilton, a world-renowned expert on glaciers and their impact on sea levels in a warming climate, died on Saturday in Antarctica when his snowmobile plunged into one of the crevasses he was studying.
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It's lightweight and portable, so you can use it to clean your living room and then turn around to use it to get all those hard-to-reach crumbs in the seat crevasses of your car.
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And Gordon Hamilton, a world-renowned expert on glaciers and their impact on sea levels in a warming climate, died on Saturday in Antarctica when his snowmobile plunged into one of the crevasses he was studying.
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And Gordon Hamilton, a prominent scientist who studied glaciers and their impact on sea levels in a warming climate, died on Saturday in Antarctica when his snowmobile plunged into one of the crevasses he was studying.
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Gordon Hamilton, 50, a world-renowned expert on glaciers and their impact on sea levels in a warming climate, died on Saturday in Antarctica when his snowmobile plunged into one of the crevasses he was studying.
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Traditionally, mountaineers relieved themselves, bagged the stuff, and left it in one of two places: atop Kahiltna glacier (home to the popular West Buttress climbing route and whose elevation is 20,013 feet); or down into its crevasses.
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Camp Two, located at 6,400 meters (21,000 feet) above sea level above the treacherous Khumbu Icefall known for crevasses and avalanches, is a major camping site for climbers of Mount Everest and Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak.
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This phenomenon, which yields smaller glaciers, "fits into the larger picture of basal crevasses in the center of the ice shelf being eroded by warm ocean water, causing the ice shelf to break from the inside out," he said.
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At around 238 metres, or the height of a three-storey building, the vastness of the trunk, with its massive bark flutes, runnels and crevasses, the skinniness of the rope, and the extreme exposure of the climb become powerfully evident.
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Read More: A Nuclear-Powered US Military Ice Base Will Resurface as the Arctic Melts To measure the movement of water, the team studied the crevasses, which Poinar said were about the width of a helicopter, or about 10 meters.
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This Black+Decker vacuum is ideal for getting into cracks and crevasses where a round robot vacuum just can't go, and can allow you to give a little more attention and horsepower where a robot vacuum may do a half-assed job.
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"We had to do it by helicopter and not vertically like we can do it in other places, because the ground underneath is of a glacial type so there is a risk of crevasses and it could lead to accidents," he said.
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"We had to do it by helicopter and not vertically like we can do it in other places because the ground underneath is of a glacial type, so there is a risk of crevasses and it could lead to accidents," he said.
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There are two types of touring bands: those who use the road as an excuse to test the limits of their livers and of their ability to sleep in dirty crevasses of their van's making—and those who take Vagabon's more low-key approach.
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There is the cold to consider—temperatures in Antarctica reach seventy degrees below zero—along with steep treks through thin mountain air, and gusts of wind powerful enough to sweep researchers from mountains, not to mention rock slides, marauding polar bears, deep crevasses, and lightning strikes.
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Researchers aren't clear on exactly how this happens, but it might have something to do with either the way Hawaiian monk seals forage for snacks, according to NOAA Fisheries:Hawaiian monk seals forage by shoving their mouth and nose into the crevasses of coral reefs, under rocks, or into the sand.
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Attached flat against the gallery wall, they ruptured those white expanses with jarring, slightly creepy depictions of decay — or at least, of surrealistic incongruity: enormous cracks and crevasses opening up to some unfathomable depth; grotto-like cavities growing inexplicably into space; puffy (if oddly weighty) clouds floating near the ceiling.
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Sometimes, it means hiring more personnel to manage travel on glaciers, as some crevasses — deep cracks in the ice — are opening up weeks, if not months earlier, says Katherine Hollis, the conservation and advocacy director of The Mountaineers, a nonprofit outdoor organization that teaches skills and organizes trips for those passionate about the outdoors.
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In the Verdon gorges of the Basses-Alpes he fell in with a fellow enthusiast, Julien Millot, an engineer of the sort who could fix firm anchors among snow-covered rocks for lines that spanned crevasses; with him he formed a 20-strong team, the Flying Frenchies, composed of climbers, cooks, musicians, technicians and clowns.
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Users will be able to navigate five key moments experienced by mountaineers on the way to the summit, such as the puja offering at base camp (during which climbers and Sherpa ask Everest for her blessing on their climb), ladder walking in the Khumbu crevasses, and leaving Camp IV in the middle of the night to head for the summit.
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That clearly suggests a preservation bias in the fossil record—and, since animals that get buried in hot springs, marshes, crevasses and sinkholes are much more likely to be preserved for posterity than those that die in the open air, the data confirm the inference drawn from the well-preserved specimens, that male mammoths walked alone, and suffered as a result. Papers
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As Bishnu and I waded through donkey shit up to our ankles in this subtropical forest region after five days at base camp, it was hard not to marvel at the fact that just a few dozen miles to the north there were Wi-Fi routers mounted on top of the same ladders used to span bottomless crevasses and mountaineers relating their summiting experiences to their family over Skype.
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" Our tendency to interpret all external events by the way they shape the dark crevasses of the psyche is a modern one, he asserts, a paradigm ushered in by Freud, and it would be a fatal mistake to presume that people back then were anything like us, that their thoughts and feelings were shaded by a common consciousness, since "our world is only one of many possible worlds.
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Just below were the words "Schwäbisch Gmünd," a little town in southern Germany, I soon learned, where the 83-year-old company makes many of these beguilingly lifelike beings: wild creatures from around the world, all rendered with such precision that you can see and feel a sea otter's wet and rippling fur, or the weathered cracks and crevasses of an elephant's skin, or the scalloped feathers of a macaw's upraised underwings.
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