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...In the years that followed, after initially swearing off expedition climbing entirely, he tried it again, first in Alaska and then in Patagonia — smaller ranges with lower altitudes that allowed him to find...
...The so-called Hall thrusters work by passing electromagnetic fields through the gas xenon, which is used on Earth in car headlights and plasma TVs....
...Moonlight silvers the fields, the mountains are masses of dark and there are few evening travellers boarding the cableway at Mörel....
...The light is truly mesmeric, with a depth of field and clarity that is hard to describe....
...On his ocean expedition this year, he collected at least 50 spherules: “beautiful metallic marbles”....
...In my cabin, I’m dining with Peter Fretwell, author and scientist at the British Antarctic Survey and, right now, part of an expedition combining scientists and experts on fields ranging from climate change...
...There was one particular horse in All the Pretty Horses, whose journey through a field Samer could not shake....
...“That winter walk was as hard as any expedition I’ve been on,” says Fields. “Sometimes we walked the equivalent of a marathon in a day and it was always damp and cold....
...With the ice rink, new hospitals, parks, illuminated roads, you couldn’t imagine this place in ruins. They are leaving behind two businesses....
...The boreal forests first started forming around 18,000 years ago when the glaciers of the last ice age started retreating....
...He wants to know which tent to pull out for a camping trip Cool and the kids are planning tonight in a nearby field....
...“This means we can explore deeper into the pack ice, or further north to the unexplored reaches of the Arctic,” said Sven Lindblad, founder of New York-based Lindblad Expeditions, which owns the ship and...
...Every few minutes Bobby calls out “Ice!”, where the flagstones have frozen....
...Breaking the ice in ponds and bird baths provides them with drink. If you are walking across fields or foreshores, please put your dog on a lead near flocks....
...We wheel our bikes on to the golden beaches at Camber Sands, where we have an ice cream and a chilly dip....
...After lunch we continue hiking higher, across a field of scree and approaching the Cagliero glacier. A tongue of ice pours down from the peaks and dips into the Laguna El Diablo, glassy and grey....
...In a campsite during the expedition, Jahrel was on a video call to his father when Fields walked past....
...This could happen in many places in the world where you have ice flowing into a fjord or sea — Svalbard, the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Alaska, Patagonia and so on....
...for a holiday inspired by Verne’s novel, one of a set of “Take me on a story” tours designed by the travel company Black Tomato that also include the Oxfordshire of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Alaska...
...I think I must have come down with about a thousand photographs of Patagonia and its ice fields....
...Their most ambitious effort, the Fifth Thule Expedition, consumed four years as they travelled overland from northern Greenland to the western limits of Alaska and the Bering Sea, 20,000 miles altogether...
...And then there were the stories of Don keeping an eye on climbing expeditions, airdropping fudge and ice cream to boost morale when the conditions got grim, like a protective parent....
...I was following an expedition that my great-grandfather made in 1891 and wrote about and left a map of....
...“Business is very good,” says Paneeraq Fleischer, a manager at the Pisiffik supermarket, just next to the football field. She has one problem though — the economic boom has led to a labour shortage....
...“We are also looking at the opportunities presented by Arctic ice melt in logistics and shipping,” she says....
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