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In the summer this tundra, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichens, because of the melted surface ice and the permafrost beneath, preventing complete drainage, is soft and spongy. - (Beasts of Gor, Chapter 12, Sentence #353)

Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes. Snow that does fall, of course, is less likely to melt. Most of the land is tundra, a cool, generally level or slightly wavy, treeless plain. In the summer this tundra, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichens, because of the melted surface ice and the permafrost beneath, preventing complete drainage, is soft and spongy. In the winter, of course, and in the early spring and late fall, desolate, bleak and frozen, wind-swept, it presents the aspect of a barren, alien landscape. At such times the red hunters will dwell by the sea, in the spring and fall by its shores, and, in the winter, going out on the ice itself. I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. - (Beasts of Gor)