The ancient glacier sat like a saddle on the island.
Above 3,500 m there are a number of ancient glaciers and the nature is alpine.
The cold and wet summers help preserve the ancient glaciers.
Rapelji said that they'd been carved out of the earth by ancient glaciers.
An ancient glacier had dropped blocks of limestone and granite all over this flat, barren region.
An hour later they came over a ridge of ice and before them, in clear moonlight, lay a dry valley scoured clean by ancient glaciers.
They didn't belong here; they were huge granite boulders deposited by some ancient glacier.
Sheer cliffs gouged by ancient glaciers loom high and tight overhead.
Patagonia, a wind-swept region of ancient glaciers and snowcapped mountains, just got a lot closer.
The landscape itself was austere and barren, covered with bare stone scoured out of the earth by ancient glaciers.
