| The Maelifellsandur is a vast desert of volcanic rock and dust that we crossed in order to start a short but dangerous glacial walk on the crevassed surface of the Myrdalsjökull glacier. |
| On both sides of the river, levees crevassed from Cairo to the Gulf, and in the same thousand miles the flood destroyed every bridge. |
| To the inland side, snow-peaked mountain ridges, hewn and crevassed by glaciation, alternated in the mist with mournful expanses of rimy moorland. |
| An easy approach, through a crevassed area, takes us to the foot of the climb, and the ice faces of Pic de La Grave. |
| Retracing the way out of the broken ice, we steered in a south-westerly direction, just above the line of serac and crevassed ice. |
| To go down between the mountain ranges, I opted for the Axel Heiberg glacier, a route about 124 miles longer, than the heavily crevassed Baerdmore glacier, but safer. |
