However you pronounce it, it's a mouthful that is really three words in Icelandic meaning island mountain glacier.

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Any walker who stands for a moment, silhouetted against the mountain skyline above the glacier, automatically looks heroic.

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Parked directly on top of the mountain is a vast Ice Age glacier that Jules Verne, who never visited Iceland, neglected to mention in his novel.

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Public use cabins are available there and adventurers with a whole day or two -- or access to mountain bikes -- may reach Eklutna Glacier.

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They say they came up with the name Kiger after the glacier-cut Kiger Gorge on Steens Mountain, near the horses' territory.

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For sheer remoteness and scenery, visit South Georgia, a narrow, 106-mile-long, snow-covered, glacier-strewn, unpopulated island with two majestic mountain ranges.

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The ancient towns of Dali and Lijiang, the glacier surrounded by green hills on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the markets with their sweet, sweet peaches all were as wondrous as she had promised.

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Finally, Tolkien continued across the 2, 165m Grimsel Pass and through upper Valais to the village of Brig, before crossing the Aletsch glacier, the largest in the Alps, into the popular mountain resort of Zermatt.

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