Flora and fauna vary considerably with the different heights, from a jungle at lower levels to snow-covered mountainous terrain at 5,000 m.

Reykjavik was a city of low buildings and brightly painted houses that stood out against the snow-covered terrain like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

Together, they watched Russian tanks maneuver across the snow-covered terrain.

Over frozen, snow-covered terrain, the attack gained nine bitter miles despite constant machine gun and mortar fire.

It was nothing more than a featureless obsidian humanoid, moving with deadly grace over the snow-covered terrain.

German troops advance along Norway's rugged, snow-covered terrain in April 1940.

After six months traversing Afghanistan's mountainous, often snow-covered terrain, they were turned back at the Tajik border.

Pyke requested that a tracked vehicle be developed especially for the unit, capable of carrying men and their equipment at high speed across snow-covered terrain.

Cross-country skiing (or XC skiing) is a form of ski touring in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles.

The BMP-1 has a ground pressure of (0.6 kg/cm2) and is able to cross snow-covered and boggy terrain.