Froze to death up on the tundra.

Jon Krakauer  --  Into the Wild

He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundra started and the forests ended.

Gary Paulsen  --  Hatchet

Bitter tundra that stretched in all directions, ice floes drifting out on the black waters of the Arctic sea, snow-capped mountains, and cities carved out of ice whose towers sparkled like the demon towers of Alicante.

Cassandra Clare  --  City of Lost Souls

The media lights shone off the white marble like sunlight off a snowy tundra.

Dan Brown  --  Angels & Demons

Eighty miles from the Bering Sea and with temperatures of fifty below zero, I still found Bethel preferable to Ketchikan because at least the frozen tundra had blue sky and miles of visibility in all directions.

Leslie Marmon Silko  --  Ceremony

North Bressia held desert, high tundra, and six major cities housing mostly burr-root harvesters and petroleum engineers.

Dan Simmons  --  Hyperion

The plants, scrubs, bushes, trees—all the vegetation was exactly like the Canadian tundra.

Peter Jenkins  --  A Walk Across America

Marvin did not think these men were interested in photos of wolf packs on the tundra at sunset.

Don DeLillo  --  Underworld

Whenever a cloud blocked out the warming rays, though, Regis was reminded that it was September on the tundra.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Powell interviewed Graham in the foyer of the auction room, before a crystal port overlooking the arctic tundra of Ganymede with the belted red-brown bulk of Jupiter filling the black sky.

Alfred Bester  --  The Demolished Man

Tundra grass was impracticable.

Jack London  --  Sea Wolf

How about a story about either (a) global warming and the undeniable 0.8-degree rise in temperature over the last one hundred years, which foretold Sahara-like consequences throughout the United States, or (b) how global warming might cause the next ice age and turn the United States into an icy tundra.

Nicholas Sparks  --  True Believer

Tundra swan and Canada geese literally surrounded them.

Nicholas Sparks  --  The Notebook

Here’s a perfect example: I owned a Toyota Tundra truck for a while, and I got tired of driving around with my headlights on all the time.

Phil Robertson  --  Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander

From Harbor Bay west to the Lakelands, the northern tundra to the radiated wastes of the Ruins and the Wash, it’s all dangerous land for us.

Victoria Aveyard  --  Red Queen

It’s sure to be a sorry day when a drow — and a ranger, what’s more-gets taken off ’is guard on an open plain by two scab tundra yetis!

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

King Heafstaag was his primary rival on the tundra, commanding a force as dedicated, disciplined, and numerous as his own.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

The huge, one-eyed king himself led the procession, his great, swinging strides indicative of the nomads of the tundra.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

The dwarf was well above the tundra floor and the lowest of the countless stars that sparkled the night.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

In every direction the tundra rolled on, flat and earthen.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

"From a friend who often travels the tundra," he answered honestly.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

The Coming Storm They started at dawn, charging across the tundra like an angry whirlwind.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

He longed for the freedom of the open tundra, where he could stretch his arms up high to the warmth of the sun or to the intangible pull of the moon.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Though he had set the trap nearly a century before, he knew that the poison of the Tundra Widowmaker snake had kept its deadly sting.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Bruenor’s as hard as mountain stone, and there is nothing on the tundra that can stop him.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Catti-brie was beyond his experience, a young woman who did not fit the role as it had been defined to him on the tundra.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

I didn’t take ’im under me eye for five years just to let him get cut down by a stinkin’ tundra yeti!

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

He remembered his own battle with tundra yetis nearly five years before.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Even on the few days that the wind shifted there was little relief, for Ten-Towns was bordered on-the north and west by miles of empty tundra and then more ice, the Sea of Moving Ice.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

The King of the Tribe of the Elk had seen more battles than any man on the tundra, and by all appearances he was ready and anxious to fight in many more.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Far out on the tundra, a lone wolf sat as still as a statue, anxious but patient as the silver disk of the huge summer moon broke the flat rim of the horizon.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Its proud pennant flew high from the top of a hill in the middle of the dry tundra between the three lakes, just south of the southern tip of the dwarven valley.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

As z LOOKED about me at the stark and cloud-topped hills, the waste of pressure-rippled ice, and, beyond the valley, to the desolate and treeless roll of tundra, I had no doubt that this was excellent wolf country.

Farley Mowat  --  Never Cry Wolf

The caves north of Ten-Towns, always a stop-over for the nomadic barbarians on their way back to the tundra, had not even been stocked to reprovision the tribes on their long trek.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

The frozen ground cracked beneath the stamp of their heavy boots, and the murmur of the endless tundra wind was buried under the strength of their song, the song to the God of Battle.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

The barbarians of Icewind Dale stood a full head and more above the average inhabitant of Ten-Towns, sprouting as though to take advantage of the wide and roomy expanses of empty tundra.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

Bruenor himself, for all of his assumptions of this barbarian’s character, could not have foreseen that this boy, Wulfgar, would grow into the man who would reshape this harsh region of the tundra.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

The Mead Hall Many miles north of Ten-Towns, across the trackless tundra to the northernmost edge of land in all the Realms, the frosts of winter had already hardened the ground in a white-tipped glaze.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

To his worst horror and disgrace, the giant king realized that every one of his warriors would die on this field if they didn’t find a way to escape the ring of enemies and flee back to the safety of the tundra.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard

This was a seldom traveled portion of the dwarven valley, the northern end, with Bremen’s Run widening out into the open tundra around the western side of the mountain, and Icewind Pass doing likewise on the east.

R.A. Salvatore  --  The Crystal Shard