How To Use Icefall In A Sentence
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So, we've been pretty much surrounded by quadraphonic icefall throughout the course of the night.
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In the Khumbu glacier region, the narrows either side of the Khumbu icefall are leucogranite cliffs beneath the Lhotse Detachment, which ramps down to the east.
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Just as Kato's team was making probing forays over the icefall successive avalanches forced a French expedition to switch its climbing route.
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For all we knew it could well have carried on getting steeper, ending at an icefall or in a crevasse field.
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And the following day they are base camp bound, which also means the last trip down through the icefall.
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From the northeast, toward China, the icefall from Teram Shehr cuts a broad swath across the east side of the Siachen.
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It is hard to believe standing here high in the Khumbu icefall that a glacier like this could simply disappear.
CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2009
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Where the ice passes over especially steep terrain, ripple marks on the glacier surface indicate the icefall.
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And in the morning, at about two or three, you'll hear another team tromping past your tent, heading up into the Icefall.
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This is usually attributed to objective dangers - unpredictable acts of God, such as avalanches, icefalls, rockfall, and horrid weather.
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So, we've been pretty much surrounded by quadraphonic icefall throughout the course of the night.
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Keith documented the icefall that claimed one of the Sherpas.
Scott's Excellent Adventure - NASA Watch
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Don't forget that, in the end, it's not lightning or rapids, avalanches or equipment, rockslides or icefalls that are going to get you.
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The icefall was a maze of crevasses and teetering seracs.
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Sherpa Nima Dorje Tamang traverses a ladder on the Khumbu Icefall of Mount Everest in Nepal.
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Every now and then I could hear a big chunk of icefall breaking off a serac to our right and crashing down the mountain in the dark.
A Nature for the Great Outdoors
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We are all looking forward to going into the base of the icefall tomorrow to try our luck on the crevasse ladders.
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These are some of the thoughts running thru our heads as we headed up into the actual icefall today.
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The glaciers, the icefalls, the three summits - we can see none of it.
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One swing and one screw at a time we slowly made our way up the bottom icefall.
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Other news from Camp I, Vernon Tejas reports to all cybernauts out there that the team's pull through the Icefall yesterday was completed in a very timely fashion.
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Within a very short period of time the entire lower Khumbu Icefall was enveloped in pulverized ice and snow.
NASA Watch: May 2009 Archives
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Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
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As we negotiated our way through icefalls and crevasse fields, I experienced feelings of awe and wonder instead of terror and dread.
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But Kato was undeterred even though the French expedition declared the icefall destroyed and unusable.
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While we were descending the icefall, there were two very large collapses of seracs (luckily not near us), and many places in the icefall which have looked the same all season but were not recognizable upon descent.
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Dozens of icefalls (ice avalanches) now occur per day all around us.
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There was no sign of any other caravan, or of an icefall which would have blocked the road.
KARA KUSH
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Check out that smooth sunrise turning all the pointy peaks and deadly icefalls a soft, deceiving pink.
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This is usually attributed to objective dangers - unpredictable acts of God, such as avalanches, icefalls, rockfall, and horrid weather.
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Above Muir, you'll wend your way past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
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The group took a thrilling helicopter ride over the glacier, which descends some 2,280 feet, terminating in a spectacular icefall that feeds the river.
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The icefall created waves as tall as 11.5 feet, which swept up and down the lake for 30 minutes.
Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps more; shears ice from glacier
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Instead of powdery slopes, we'd be attempting sheer icefalls on the weather-whipped southwest face.
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Just as long as you don't forget that, in the end, it's not lightning or rapids, avalanches or equipment, rockslides or icefalls that are going to get you.
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But this year, the route drawn by icefall doctors crossed very near the west shoulder which held an enormous cliff of seracs ready to collapse at any time.
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For the reward will be a classic view of Everest and the Khumbu icefall.
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After a hard winter freeze, however, Dow Spout becomes a slick, crystalline "icefall".
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For us a serac is a big block or pinnacle of ice sticking up in the middle of the feature of a glacier called an icefall.
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Crackling clouds of ice obscured the floor and vast red-gold icefalls blocked the only exit.
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The operation, called Operation Icefall, was led by officers from the Metropolitan police's clubs and vice unit.
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Crackling clouds of ice obscured the floor and vast red-gold icefalls blocked the only exit.