There was just the burning of his legs, the burning ache in his side, the knotted shoulders, and the cold, the cold, the everlasting cold and dark and the tiny space of light around their lantern.... Then the snow in front of him exploded upward, in his flee!

This concluded with Lyall leaping through a set of Olympic Rings, while snow and ice exploded off them and into the stadium, and him welcoming the crowd.

Claudia was able to pull in several more meters of rope and thought surely he was almost there when the snow around her exploded in a hail of gunfire.

It landed on his chest and snow exploded into his face.

He was almost upon her when the snow of the road exploded in front of his machine.

Tumbling snow exploded all around.

Loose snow, shaken from the tumbling blocks, exploded in great clots, and crystal whirlwinds sparkled at the fringes of the monstrous avalanche.

More snow exploded up and raftered away on the wind like cigar smoke blown in front of a fan.