As the lava walls of the cirque crumble they expel a constant dribble onto the dirty snow below. |
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An enormous cirque plunged 300 feet down to a frozen aquamarine lake and then sloped up and away to a sawtoothed ridge. |
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The cirque valley, which is heavily timbered, is deeply dissected by Portland Creek and its tributaries. |
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Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph cirque du Soleil. |
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But no matter where her career has taken her, or how big the cirque has become, Vial keeps coming back. |
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The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. |
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The fourth side forms the lip, threshold or sill, the side at which the glacier flowed away from the cirque. |
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Where cirques form one behind the other, a cirque stairway results as at the Zastler Loch in the Black Forest. |
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Extensive cirque development in the Wernecke Mountains indicates strong alpine glaciation, and other glacial landforms such as aretes, moraines and rock glaciers are common. |
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Continue along the Cradle Mountain plateau and scramble over dolerite rocks to the 1,500 metre summit. Walk around the glacial cirque, from where you can take a right turn off the track to explore rugged Barn Bluff. |
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When the soldiers were not lost among tattered skeins of fog, they could see far out into the cirque, as if it were a bay of black water. |
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It stands on the western side of the cirque, with Scafell to the south and Great End to the north. |
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A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion. |
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Esk Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, one of the great cirque of hills forming the head of Eskdale. |
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Small cirque and valley glaciers formed in north and east facing valleys, including Grisedale and the coves on the east side of Helvellyn. |
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L'Étrange cirque de Monsieur EdgarAt the crack of dawn, under the wan gaze of the moon and a sprinkling of stars, Monsieur Edgar brings his circus to town through back alleys. |
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After leaving the woods, the path climbs past the waterfalls of the Afon Llan to the glacial cirque of Cwm Llan, crossing a disused incline from an abandoned slate quarry. |
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Also standing above the valleys of Wasdale, Borrowdale and Great Langdale, this high cirque is open to the south and contains England's highest ground. |
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Generally, the slopes above Thirlmere are steep and grassy, whilst the Patterdale side exhibits rockier features, due to cirque glaciation on the north east side of the ridge. |
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The fluvial cirque or makhtesh, found in karst landscapes, is formed by intermittent river flow cutting through layers of limestone and chalk leaving sheer cliffs. |
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In Burtness Comb, a prominent bank of debris runs along the outer flank of the upper cirque, then turns down into the lower cirque, ending in a block strew at the intake wall. |
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Should ice segregation, plucking and abrasion continue, the dimensions of the cirque will increase, but the proportion of the landform would remain roughly the same. |
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Cirque du Soleil is back in town at the Royal Albert Hall and so naturally when the offer of tickets came up I jumped at it. |
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Going to see Cirque du Soleil is downright artsy and cultural, and it's fun and exciting. |
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Topical jokes proliferate, flames spout from balustrades and chorines' hats as Las Vegas meets Cirque du Soleil. |
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The mystique surrounding Cirque du Soleil is accented by the wonderment the show evokes from the audience. |
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From a pair of mimes to a company the size of Cirque du Soleil, the French are visited by dozens of new-circus troupes a year. |
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The pioneer of so-called contemporary circus, Cirque du Soleil soars beyond the old-fashioned big top. |
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The private Cirque du Soleil show will feature more than 70 artists from around the world, including gymnasts, acrobats, dancers and clowns. |
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In 1990 he became a prizewinner, at the Mondial du Cirque du Demain in Paris, with a performance including dancing and somersaulting on the Tight Wire. |
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He has no use for the mind-numbing bloat of Ringling Brothers nor does he like the light-show and acrobatics of Cirque du Soleil. |
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The pride and admiration Vial has for the artists who put on Cirque du Soleil is evident. |
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When Vial got that first assignment, she was just beginning her photography career, and Cirque du Soleil was only a few years old. |
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The show was very Cirque Du Soleil including acrobats flying around on bits of string and doing implausible things while balanced on tiny bits of wood. |
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Cirque du Soleil obviously sprang to startling success with a variety of shows since its 1987 founding. |
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Visitors can feed dolphins, pet stingrays, catch a Cirque de la Mer acrobatic show or enjoy a host of rides like Journey to Atlantis, Kraken, or Wild Arctic. |
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He is one of the 150 artists performing worldwide for Cirque du Soleil. |
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For Brown, doing the Cirque work is like getting a terpsichorean passport through the world's different cultures, whether it's Chinese acrobatics or the Russian bar. |
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An intimate group of senators and sheiks dined together at Le Cirque. |
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Dancers are suspended in midair like the cast of a ratchet Cirque du Soleil performance. |
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I must admit I was inclined to think so but having experienced the Cirque Dreams phenomenon I can tell you truthfully that it does, indeed, defy description. |
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The recently opened Cirque d'Hiver in Paris was seen in the contemporary press as the design to outdo. |
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Meanwhile, her artistic cycling won a gold medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris, France. |
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Celine, Bette, Manilow, Cirque du Soleil and, now, Britney and Olivia. |
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Several circus troupes were created in recent decades, the most important being without any doubt the Cirque du Soleil. |
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Amaluna's visit in 2016 marked Cirque's '20 years of Cirque at the Royal Albert Hall' celebration. |
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Cirque du Soleil is known for its cutting-edge shows that feature aerialists, acrobats and contortionists. |
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Terry Senate and Casey Rigney are both rumored to be headed to that merciful mother lode of skate sponsorship at Cirque du Soleil's Grand Chapiteau. |
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It's also a sad fact that to witness some of Cirque du Soleil's not-to-be-believed performances, a theatergoer will have to brave the lunacy of Las Vegas. |
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Cirque has had to adapted many of their touring shows to perform at the venue, modifying the set, usually built for arenas or big top tents instead. |
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