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Alpine glacier

NOUN
  1. a glacier that moves down from a high valley

How To Use Alpine glacier In A Sentence

  • He had lain in his icy tomb on an Alpine glacier in northern Italy for 5, 300 years, a perfectly preserved Stone Age warrior, complete with fur robes, leather shoes and bow and arrow.
  • To our left was an alpine glacier dominated by sharp-edged icy pinnacles and to our right were walls of soaring rock.
  • The shoe specialist has been studying the shoes found on the feet of a prehistoric iceman whose mummified body was found in an Alpine glacier in 1991.
  • Melting ice can unlock ancient secrets from the ground, as with the discovery in 1991 of "Oetzi", a 5,300-year-old warrior whose body had been preserved through the millennia inside an Alpine glacier.
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