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| The author (2006) below Mt.
Viso on the approach to the Col de la Traversette in the Upper Guil
River Basin. Hannibal traversed this glacially-polished bedrock on
the way to the col. Elevation = 2700 meters. Photograph by Bob Siegenthaler,
USMC retired. |
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| Approach route along the Guil
River to the Col de la Traversette. The north flank of Mt. Viso 3841
meters elevation is visible along the skyline. Photograph by Bob Siegenthaler,
USMC retired. |
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| Col de la Traversette from
the upper Guil River in present-day France. The top of a rockfall
dating to the Little Ice Age (ca. ~200 years) is in foreground. The
rockfall postdates passage of the Punic Army (218 BC) that moved up
and over the slide-rock (talus) to the col. Photograph by Bill Mahaney. |
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| Fluted bedrock below the
Bonpland Lobe of Humboldt Glacier (ca. 4800 meters elevation) in the
Eastern Mérida Andes, Venezuela. Hannibal did not traverse
glacial ice but he did cross country similar to this. According to
ancient authors much of the alpine surface was snow-covered during
the invasion. Photography |
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| New Zealand Air Force helicopter
landing at site 828, near New Mountain above the Taylor Glacier in
the Antarctic Mountains, 1998. The author was operating as part of
Kiwi Project 105, 1997-1998. Photograph by Bill Mahaney. |
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| The author at base camp (1998)
above the Taylor Glacier on moraine (glacial deposits; site 828) 15
million yrs old. The deposits carry a weathering crust (ancient soil)
approximately 15 cm thick (photograph by Iain Campbell). |
