An ice tool is a specialized elaboration of the modern ice axe, and often described broadly as an ice axe or technical axe, used in modern ice climbing...

particularly double ice axes (or the more modern ice tools) and rigid crampons. To protect the route, the ice climber uses steel ice screws that require...

Dry-tooling (or drytooling) is a form of mixed climbing that is performed on bare, ice-free, and snow-free, routes. As with mixed climbing, the climber...

An ice axe is a multi-purpose hiking and climbing tool used by mountaineers in both the ascent and descent of routes that involve snow or ice covered (e...

the Scottish Winter system (e.g. Grade VII). Pure dry-tooling routes (i.e. ice tools with no ice) use the D-grade prefix (e.g. D8 instead of M8). In mountaineering...

dynamic rope is used. Anchors: Usually constructed from trees, boulders, ice or rock features, using webbing/cordelette, or rock climbing equipment. Some...

An ice pick is a pointed metal tool used to break, pick or chip at ice. The design consists of a sharp metal spike attached to a wooden handle. The tool's...

weak protection on ice. ice screw Modern protection device in ice climbing, with the tubular ice screw as the strongest. ice tool A specialized elaboration...

mixed-climber uses ice-climbing equipment throughout (e.g. double ice tools and crampons), but to protect the route, they use both ice and rock equipment...

A crevasse is a deep crack that forms in a glacier or ice sheet. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear...

Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist. From 2015 to 2016, a film crew followed Leclerc as...

screwing these into the ice one would pound them in with a hammer from the ice tool, and then screw them out with the pick of an ice axe. The pound-ins have...

in ascending the route. Free climbing, therefore, cannot use any of the tools that are used in aid climbing to help overcome the obstacles encountered...

water-based ice. Historically, the ice-cutting machine was a simple tool in the shape of a plane, but now, most shaved ice is created by electric ice shavers...

cutting process itself, replacing the hand saw. By the 1850s, specialist ice tool manufacturers were producing catalogues and selling products along the...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ice scrapers. An ice scraper is a handheld tool for removing frost, ice, and snow from windows, usually on automobiles...

ends and free soloing begins is a source of debate. Ice climbing: Some ice climbers are notable for ice free-soloing, as well as mixed free-soloing. As well...

and passive climbing protection, belay devices, helmets, ice tools and piolets, crampons, ice screws, bouldering pads, and big wall equipment. They also...

ice, and mixed rock and ice terrain climbers must use more advanced techniques, called ice climbing or mixed climbing. Specialized tools such as ice screws...

Standard 152: Ice Tools" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-20. Retrieved 2018-11-01. "EN 13089 Mountaineering equipment – Ice-tools – Safety...

except for climbing shoes and climbing chalk (for a rock-climber) or ice tools (for an ice-climber), to ascend a climbing route. Free soloing is the most dramatic...

broken his shoulder, but slowly scaled the ice walls of the crevasse, six inches at a time, with his ice axe and crampons. Once upon the rim surface...

mountaineering equipment (including for all forms of rock climbing and of ice climbing), sorted by continent and by country. Kalapatthar Dolpo Sherpa (fabric)...

(82–98 ft) in height. Top roping is also used in ice climbing, and the related sports of mixed climbing and dry-tooling, and it is used in combination with auto...

rock and ice (called dry-tooling if there is no ice). Mountaineering: Ascending mountains, which can involve some rock or ice climbing, but unlike alpine...

4: A Thief's End, Nathan Drake acquires a piton from a hanged corpse. The tool becomes more used in the later half of the game. In Uncharted: The Lost Legacy...

sliding uncontrollably down a snow or ice-covered slope 'arrests' their fall by themselves by using their ice axe and their crampons. There are many...

became the norm. In the 1980s, two important training tools emerged. One important training tool was bouldering mats, also referred to as "crash pads"...

athletes across a number of sports including mountain running, rock climbing, ice climbing, alpine climbing and skiing. The company had previously collaborated...

the late Canadian alpinist Marc-André Leclerc, featuring various free solo ice and alpine ascents. The Dawn Wall, a 2017 documentary film on Tommy Caldwell...