ice-clad

The perspectives and landscapes begin to widen once our tough miners land on an artificial alien planet (which the ice-clad moon of Saturn, Janus, turned out to be).

Alastair Reynolds "Pushing Ice" 2008

The sun, which now stood in the south, was completely hidden by the latter mountain, and our camp was thus in the deepest shadow; but right against us on the other side the Nansen mountain raised its splendid ice-clad summit high towards heaven, gleaming and sparkling in the rays of the midnight sun.

The South Pole~ The Return to Framheim 2009

I rode up and down hills laboriously in snow-drifts, getting off often to ease my faithful Birdie by walking down ice-clad slopes, stopping constantly to feast my eyes upon that changeless glory, always seeing some new ravine, with its depths of color or miraculous brilliancy of red, or phantasy of form.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

The sun, which now stood in the south, was completely hidden by the latter mountain, and our camp was thus in the deepest shadow; but right against us on the other side the Nansen mountain raised its splendid ice-clad summit high towards heaven, gleaming and sparkling in the rays of the midnight sun.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

New land in the shape of ice-clad mountains greeted the explorers on

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

In the early spring, when the daylight was an hour long, Peary set out for the north pole over the ice-clad ocean with sledges drawn by dogs.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

His party will have to cross the glaciers and ice-clad mountains which lie in his path, and will have to camp many days on the ice, a cold and comfortless proceeding.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 33, June 24, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

The crater rim was only a few miles distant, and during the first three days the party could be seen from the camp by means of a powerful telescope -- tiny black specks struggling up the ice-clad slopes.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

Under such conditions, it appears that the only extensive body of shallow water extending from the ice-clad southern continent is the shoal channel which separates the South Shetlands from Cape Horn, which is a region of great snowfall.

Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

He will have danced upon the sparkling waves of the Ægean, groped through the fogs of Liverpool, sweltered in the sultry glare of Tunis, skirted the ice-clad shores of Scandinavia, sickened in the surges of the Channel, lain glassed in the watery mirror of the China Sea.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various