Using this sentence from “How NASA Measures the Death of a Glacier from Space”:

“Standing on frozen ground, tasting air heavy with huckleberries, I had to perch on a lofty boulder in order to focus the whole ice mass in my smartphone screen.”

In your own words, describe what the sentence means.

1 answer

In the sentence, the speaker is on a glacier, surrounded by a cold environment filled with the scent of huckleberries. To capture the entire glacier in a picture using their smartphone, they have to climb onto a high rock.