Ice and Snow

Abstract

For some nature challenge enthusiasts ice or snow (sometimes both) have significance far deeper and more positive than the common view of both as something that precipitates a fall or requires cleaning up. What is more the latter, negative, appreciation of ice and snow is usually accompanied by a dislike for the freezing temperatures that make both possible. And the disagreeable experience of freezing temperatures may be worsened by wind, producing painful ‘wind chill’. So the impulse, among those who can afford it, is to escape to a place on the planet where these conditions are absent and agreeable warmth, free of ice and snow, prevails.