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.
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.
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