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snowblindness

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Noun1.snowblindness - temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice
snow-blindness
blindness, cecity, sightlessness - the state of being blind or lacking sight
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Giorgio said he has been hurt on climbs before - a broken vertebrae, snowblindness, and his kidneys even shut down once - but nothing like the beating his body took this time.
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With only an inaccurate map, Albanov led his men on a 235-mile journey of blizzards, disintegrating ice floes and attacks by polar bears, as well as starvation, sickness, snowblindness and mutiny.
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