How To Use Ice ax In A Sentence
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No alpinist worth his ice ax wants to be accused of climbing a mountain in lesser style than those who came before.
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The group threaded its way up treacherous couloirs and 50-degree snow slopes, cutting steps with ice axes.
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Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
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We down-climbed, belaying one another with our ice axes as anchors.
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“I took out the ice axe from the raincoat, gripped it in my hand and, with my eyes closed, dealt him a terrible blow on the head.”
Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Permanent Revolution
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Every stressed word is like an ice ax, trying to gain purchase, while the alliterated "sh" — "sharp shapes, glacier -/scraped faces" — enacts the horrible sound of an object sliding down sheer ice.
The Reluctant Poet Laureate
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But, despite traversing steep alpine regions, he did not pack crampons, an ice axe or an emergency distress beacon.
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Five rounds from the Service axite and Service cordite were placed in an oven and heated to a temperature of 110° F. for one hour, and were then fired for pressure.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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Straps/attachment points: two lashing patches on lid; no ice axe loop.
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He who showed quick reactions to stick his ice axe into the ground and hung for several minutes.
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Using his one good hand, he inched down to Angerer and with his ice axe cut him loose.
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A full rack should be taken and ice axes and crampons may be needed up to about August.
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The 650-foot gully was so steep it required ice axes, crampons, ropes, and belays to ascend it.
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Gilkey was anchored securely to his position in the gully with two ice axes while the others moved to the other side of a rocky rib to set up a tent.
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Straps/attachment points: ice axe loop and snap.
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The ice was supplied by a local fish factory and re-applied every night to a vertical wall after being hacked at all day by ice axes.
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An ice axe lay forlornly on the snow below rock buttresses high on Harrison Stickle, the most dominant of the Langdale Pikes.
Country diary: Great Langdale, Lake District
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Straps/attachment points: two lashing patches on lid; no ice axe loop.
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Straps/attachment points: ice axe loop and snap.
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In each hand one has a short, curved, ice axe that is designed to enable one to smoothly drive the pick into the frozen water, thereby giving you something to hold onto.
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The 650-foot gully was so steep it required ice axes, crampons, ropes, and belays to ascend it.
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But another Sherpa guide had dropped his ice axe, effectively stranding him, so Chhiring tied him to his harness, and down climbed the couloir with his friend hanging off him.
Freddie Wilkinson: Heroes in Fine Print
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Anna dropped the medical bag and used Nims's pulaski like an ice axe, clawing up the hill.
Firestorm
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He imagines himself in stressful climbing situations - say, hanging from ice axes a thousand feet off the deck and suddenly getting bombarded by rockfall.
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If you have ski poles, but no arrest grips or ice ax, you can perform a self arrest with your pole tips.
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Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
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The group threaded its way up treacherous couloirs and 50-degree snow slopes, cutting steps with ice axes.
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The next morning, equipped with ice axes and ice climbing boots, they were tasked with summiting the volcano, more than 9,300 feet above sea level.
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Gilkey was anchored securely to his position in the gully with two ice axes while the others moved to the other side of a rocky rib to set up a tent.
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A century ago, mountains were climbed in hobnailed boots with stafflike ice axes, footsteps laboriously cut all the way to the top.
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If this fails to stop you being pulled off, get straight into the ice axe arrest position.
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To scale the 35 metres you need climbing boots, crampons, two ice axes, a helmet, a harness, plus a head for heights.
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This month, alpinist Mark Synnott tests the sharpest new ice axes, crampons, ice screws, leashes, and screamers.
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So carry a lightweight rope, harnesses, ice axe, crampons, and ascenders.
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When your ice ax is stowed on your pack, place protectors on the tip, adz, and spike to prevent injury to you and others.
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A short traverse led to the foot of the cornice and I managed to ease my way across to it, virtually hanging from my ice axe.
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We use our ice axes to stake down the fly, but it flaps as violently as a trapped bird.
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My ice axe, tied to my wrist by its nylon sling, was flailing around wildly and every time the snow engulfed me, I choked as it went in my eyes, up my nose and into my ears.
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I taking a running jump and land a nice axe kick on him.
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This month, alpinist Mark Synnott tests the sharpest new ice axes, crampons, ice screws, leashes, and screamers.