High altitude snowy iced lake. A glacial lake is a lake with origins in a melted glacier. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land, and then melts, filling the hole or space that it has created. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. These lakes are often surrounded by drumlins, along with other evidence of the glacier such as moraines, eskers and erosional features such as striations and chatter marks. Alpine alp climate highland sediment sediments crater mountainous hilly snow ice fly flying glaciation. 4K UHD 3840×2160 30p.