snow blindness

Because the American film industry is based in the sun bleached sands of Southern California, movies rarely feature snow.

From that region they issue to inflict diseases, especially blindness and deafness.

To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.

By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.

At the foot of the pass, the valley widened a little, though still with steep, snow-capped cliffs crowding it on either side.

I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.