| For far above them a dark jagged line had opened across the snowfield, with the dull report they had heard. |
| I'd topped a fold and begun the last scramble to my truck when something streaked across the snowfield a hundred yards in front of me. |
| A mountain rescuer, who was wearing a bulky but lightweight vacuum mattress pack on his back, was deployed on to a snowfield from a hover. |
| The moon just showed over the mountains in that direction which cast their strange black shadows on the snowfield. |
| Wherever, beneath the edge of a snowfield, the country shapes itself into a valley, there you will find a glacier. |
| From where we stood, thick black hoses ran like wiring up across a snowfield, snaking in the distance over makeshift supports. |
