On hollow spiral prismatic crystals of ice on the surface of snow

1914; Volume: 17; Issue: 80 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1180/minmag.1914.017.80.07

ISSN

2515-821X

Autores

Lewis Leigh Fermor,

Tópico(s)

Cryospheric studies and observations

Resumo

Last winter I enjoyed the good fortune of spending some three months at Zweisimmen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, in order to participate in the winter sports. Happily it proved a fine, cold winter of hard frosts and moderately heavy total snowfall. During such a stay in the crisp, dry cold of a snow-mantled world, the manifold and beautiful forms assumed by snow and ice are set before one in a manner impossible in this relatively warm and moist isle with its fleeting glimpses of true wintry weather.

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