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not to be really happy about the top until he can say, "How nice it is to have been there," and meanwhile fervently hopes that in his fatigued condition the descent will not seem too much steeper than the ascent, that the weather will not get any worse, and that some of the snow bridges he used in the morning will still exist in the evening. But the skier who has achieved his difficult summit with sound technique, and has equally well achieved the valley again, may now consider himself a true ski mountaineer. Glaciers The name glacier has been applied to ice bodies varying from small residual glaciers in Colorado, moving a few inches a year, to a valley glacier in Greenland which races along at 99 feet per day. Few are the mountains really deserving of the name that have not been severely modified, and made beautiful, by glaciers. Even the ski mountaineer who never expects to see glaciers would do well to know a little of them so that at least he can recognize their effect on the mountains he travels. |
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