The snow mantle had deepened alarmingly during the night, and he came none too soon.

They worked a long time before they cleared a little patch of ground of its snow mantle.

Poliʻahu was finally able to grab her now-burning snow mantle and throw it over the mountain.

The snow mantle reaches four meters.

Earthquakes shook the island as the snow mantle unfolded until it reached the fire fountains, chilling and hardening the lava.

The log walls of huts under construction rise from the snow mantle of this village with a stark sketchbook beauty.

The winter snow mantle them with white, and the turquoise sky gives a setting for their grey rocks and gleaming caps that is of unrivaled beauty.

The maximum layer of snow is recorded to be 96 cm while the month with a maximum of snow mantle days is February with 11.7 days.

Above Grimaldi, the green sward of pines layered the majestic mountain slopes, devoid in the Summer heat of the white snow mantle that drew the crowds during the skiing season.

Random 'Dark Corners' Outside on the Kremlin estate, the pristine snow mantle has long since turned to mauve slush and evaporated under the wheels of the party limousines as the agenda clogs after nine days of debate.

This city of 630,000, measured as one of the most noxious in the country, offers wintry rural tableaux cruelly stippled with numerous steel and aluminum plant stacks endlessly belching surreally colored smoke that begrimes the snow mantle.

Scientists have found that the snow mantle covering the Northern Hemisphere is shrinking, that the sea ice near Greenland is thinning and that the Alaskan snow melted about two weeks earlier in the 1980's than it did in the 1940's.