snowline

The situation became worse as we climbed above the snowline when one evening, rather to my surprise, he offered to take me hunting for game along with a small group of others, as was their custom.

Duet « A Fly in Amber 2010

Each day the snowline crept farther down the bleak, rock - shouldered peaks, and gale followed gale, with sleet and slush and snow, and in the eddies and quiet places young ice formed and thickened through the fleeting hours.

THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

A plateau with an average elevation of around 10,000 ft (about 3000 mts.) with most of the surrounding mountains above the snowline, Ladakh is an arid mountainous region of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) spanning the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges and the Upper Indus valley.

Kargil - as I remember it 2009

The only other one I have seen required a four-hour predawn walk up to the snowline of a Turkish mountain range and even then was miles away in iced blue skies.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

A plateau with an average elevation of around 10,000 ft (about 3000 mts.) with most of the surrounding mountains above the snowline, Ladakh is an arid mountainous region of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) spanning the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges and the Upper Indus valley.

Kargil - as I remember it 2009

A floristically rich alpine vegetation of shrubs, tussocks and herbs extends along the summits of the mountains, from about 1,000 m in altitude above the tree line to the permanent snowline.

Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008

A number of weta (large, flightless insects restricted to New Zealand) are also found in the alpine zone, including the widespread alpine weta (Deinaacrida pluvialis) which lives at altitudes up to 1,800 m, and the Mt. Cook flea (Pharmacus montanus), a cave weta that lives in rock crevices above the snowline.

Southland montane grasslands 2008

Today, vegetation is stratified according to elevation so that several distinct meadow and steppe communities occur along a gradient that ranges from the base of the mountains at about 1,000 m to the edge of snowline at about 3,300 to 4,200 m.

Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows 2008

The alpine scrub and meadows in the eastern Himalayas are nested between the treeline at 4,000 meters (m) and the snowline at about 5,500 m and extend from the deep Kali Gandaki gorge through Bhutan and India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, to northern Myanmar.

Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows 2008

Sheltered valleys harbor different plants than exposed ridges, and communities below the snowline differ appreciably from those on mountain peaks.

Montane fynbos and renosterveld 2008