Those on "Carpathia" were startled by the scene that greeted them as the sun rose: "fields of ice on which, like points on the landscape, rested innumerable pyramids of ice." Captain Arthur Rostron of "Carpathia" saw ice all around, including 20 large bergs measuring up to high and numerous smaller bergs, as well as ice floes and debris from "Titanic". It appeared to "Carpathia"s passengers that their ship was in the middle of a vast white plain of ice, studded with icebergs appearing like hills in the distance.