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ice axe
noun
- a light axe used by mountaineers for cutting footholds in snow or ice, to provide an anchor point, or to control a slide on snow; it has a spiked tip and a head consisting of a pick and an adze
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Barton said Taylor "thought it'd be a fantastic idea when you were having a scrap to pull an ice axe out and swing it into somebody and it stuck in his head".
Arran Mountain Rescue warned conditions on Arran's hills were highly changeable and asked climbers to equip themselves for full winter conditions with ice axe and crampons.
He said this meant crampons and an ice axe were also needed.
Crossing the High Sierra in June usually means slow going over deep snow, with crampons on your boots and an ice axe in hand.
Saturday, a 43-year-old man climbing up a popular route up the mountain’s western face lost his ice axe and tumbled down the steep and icy mountainside, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office reported.
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