All 36 Uses of
glacier
in
Into the Wild
- About ten miles past the end of the improved road the Stampede Trail crosses the Teklanika River, a fast, icy stream whose waters are opaque with glacial till.
p. 11..5glacial = from a glacier (a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river)
- Waterman flew to the Kahiltna Glacier in December 1979 to begin the ascent but called it off after only fourteen days.
p. 79..1glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
- He started plodding north from tidewater in February, but his enthusiasm fizzled on the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier, still thirty miles from the peak, so he aborted the attempt and retreated to Talkeetna.
p. 79..6
- Late in the month Mugs Stump crossed paths with Waterman on the upper Ruth Glacier.
p. 79..8
- For several weeks, Waterman lingered in the area of the Sheldon Mountain House, a small cabin perched on the side of the Ruth Glacier in the heart of the range.
p. 80..2
- Waterman was last placed on the Northwest Fork of the Ruth Glacier on April 1.
p. 80..5
- It was an abbreviated trip, he spent a short time around Fairbanks, then hurried south to get back to Atlanta in time for the start of fall classes, but he had been smitten by the vastness of the land, by the ghostly hue of the glaciers, by the pellucid subarctic sky.
p. 124..5glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
- An intrusion of diorite sculpted by ancient glaciers into a peak of immense and spectacular proportions, the Thumb is especially imposing from the north:
p. 134..9
- ...a peak of immense and spectacular proportions, the Thumb is especially imposing from the north: Its great north wall, which had never been climbed, rises sheer and clean for six thousand feet from the glacier at its base, twice the height of Yosemite's El Capitan.
p. 135..0glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
- I would go to Alaska, ski inland from the sea across thirty miles of glacial ice, and ascend this mighty nordwand.
p. 135..1glacial = of a glacier (a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river)
- ...from which the long blue tongues of numerous glaciers inch down toward the sea under the weight of the ages.
p. 137..9 *glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow riverseditor's notes: Most glaciers move about a meter a day; though they range from half a meter a year to thirty meters a day. To see pictures, click on the Google Images link available when browsing words.
- To reach the foot of the mountain, I had to find a ride across twenty-five miles of saltwater and then ski thirty miles up one of these glaciers, the Baird, a valley of ice that hadn't seen a human footprint, I was fairly certain, in many, many years.
p. 138..0glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
- The broad, rubble-strewn terminus of the glacier was visible a mile away.
p. 138..2glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
- But the snow concealed many of the glaciers crevasses, increasing the danger.
p. 138..4glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
- Staggering slowly up the glacier beneath my overloaded pack, bearing this ridiculous metal cross, I felt like an odd sort of penitente.
p. 138..6glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
- The unnamed peaks towering over the glacier were bigger and comelier and infinitely more menacing than they would have been were I in the company of another person.
p. 138..8
- Here the glacier spills abruptly over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice.
p. 139..1
- A madrigal of creaks and sharp reports, the sort of protest a large fir limb makes when it's slowly bent to the breaking point, served as a reminder that it is the nature of glaciers to move, the habit of seracs to topple.
p. 139..7glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
- Night had nearly fallen by the time I emerged from the top of the serac slope onto the empty, wind-scoured expanse of the high glacial plateau.
p. 139..9glacial = of a glacier (a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river)
- The pilot, however, was unaccustomed to glacier flying, and he'd badly misjudged the scale of the terrain.
p. 141..1glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
- As silence again settled over the glacier, I felt abandoned, vulnerable, lost.
p. 141..5
- A small hanging glacier extends out from the lip of the ice cap, leading up and across the north face of the Thumb like a catwalk.
p. 141..8
- That would begin immediately above, where the hanging glacier gives way to vertical rock.
p. 142..1
- Beneath my Vibram soles the wall fell away for three thousand feet to the dirty, avalanche-scarred cirque of the Witches Cauldron Glacier.
p. 142..5
- I'd gained nearly seven hundred feet of altitude since stepping off the hanging glacier, all of it on crampon front points and the picks of my axes.
p. 143..4
- But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.
p. 145..1glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
- I didn't have a clue as to how to locate the tent on the featureless glacial plateau.
p. 151..0glacial = of a glacier (a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river)
- At sunset the wind died, and the ceiling lifted 150 feet off the glacier, enabling me to locate my base camp.
p. 151..7glacier = a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
- Looking between my legs, I stole a glance at the glacier more than two thousand feet below.
p. 153..3
- Again I looked down at the long drop to the glacier, then up, then scraped away the patina of ice above my head.
p. 153..4
- It was his day off, he said; he'd made the trip to show his family the glacier and to look for bears.
p. 154..3
- To McCandless's inexperienced eye, there was nothing to suggest that two months hence, as the glaciers and snowfields at the Teklanika's headwater thawed in the summer heat, its discharge would multiply nine or ten times in volume, transforming the river into a deep, violent torrent that bore no resemblance to the gentle brook he'd blithely waded across in April.
p. 163..1glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
- On July 5, however, the Teklanika was at full flood, swollen with rain and snowmelt from glaciers high in the Alaska Range, running cold and fast.
p. 170..1
- The water, opaque with glacial sediment and only a few degrees warmer than the ice it had so recently been, was the color of wet concrete.
p. 170..2glacial = of a glacier (a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river)
- It is a hot, humid afternoon, and the river is livid with runoff from the fast-melting snowpack that still blankets the glaciers in the higher elevations of the Alaska Range.
p. 173..2glaciers = masses of ice that move over land like exceedingly slow rivers
- John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California's Mt. Ritter.
p. 182..8
Definition:
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(glacier) a large mass of ice that moves over land like an exceedingly slow river
The form glacial, in addition to meaning relates to a glacier, can mean:- moves very slowly (like a glacier)
- relates to a geological time period when much of the earth was covered with glaciers
- relates to ice or cold (often metaphorically) -- as in "She gave me a glacial stare."
editor's notes: Glaciers are thought of as moving very slowly and slow ones may move as little as a foot or two a year, but there are also fast-moving glaciers that can move as much as ninety feet per day.