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Excerpt from Museum Stories for Children, Vol. 12: October-December, 1929 One of the greatest thrills you can ever experience will come when you have an opportunity to climb a very high mountain. Usually, the lower slopes are covered with magnificent forests. Beyond this comes an area of gnarled, twisted trees that cling closely to Mother Earth for support and shelter. Highest of all is the region of jagged, barren rocks. This is. The kingdom of cloud and wind, and wind is a relentless ruler. It IS in this land that glaciers have their beginning. Tiny wisps of vapor cradled in winds from far distant seas, or wafted up from the lowlands beneath, are here swept into cloud masses which swirl about the treeless summits, fill the crevices, or change at the touch of the wind into akes of snow. At first, these akes are dry and powdery, drift about and fall upon the upper heights. They fill the hollows which are sheltered from the strong winds and if the mountain is extremely high, as in Alaska or Switzerland, the snow may accumulate until its own weight is such as to cause it to creep slowly out of its hollow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.