How To Use ice ax In A Sentence
- If this fails to stop you being pulled off, get straight into the ice axe arrest position.
- 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
- Anna dropped the medical bag and used Nims's pulaski like an ice axe, clawing up the hill. Firestorm
- He imagines himself in stressful climbing situations - say, hanging from ice axes a thousand feet off the deck and suddenly getting bombarded by rockfall.
- If you have ski poles, but no arrest grips or ice ax, you can perform a self arrest with your pole tips.
- Don't touch metallic objects like ice axes, crampons, tent poles, or jewelry.
- The group threaded its way up treacherous couloirs and 50-degree snow slopes, cutting steps with ice axes.
- 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.
- 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.
- A century ago, mountains were climbed in hobnailed boots with stafflike ice axes, footsteps laboriously cut all the way to the top.
