These glacial deposits were of two kinds ... which marks the end of an ice sheet or valley glacier, and lateral moraine, which forms at the edge of a glacier at the valley side.

See that U-shaped valley? That’s Lairig Ghru. It was carved out by a glacier, a huge river of ice, during the ice age - just like corries and other glacial features. As glaciers move downhill ...

Locals call these deposits "gulch fillings ... Clark Fork River Imagine a glacier filling this valley so that only a few mountaintops poked above the ice. The glacier, a southern tongue of ...

Minaret Station Alpine Lodge is nestled at the head of a glacial valley on the western shores of Lake Wanaka Transfers are via sister company Alpine Helicopters which offers departures from ...