ice-fall

Last year, he and 11 others co-wrote an article on the ice-fall mystery in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry.

Boing Boing: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 Archives 2006

The thing sniffed Magnus Manson's body, the long, impossible snout returning again and again to the ice-fall of brown blood covering Magnus's front.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

His partner's brief Death Nap did not disturb Hickey — he knew that He could bring Magnus back whenever He chose to — but the open eyes endlessly staring over that gaping mouth and frozen ice-fall of blood began to get on the god's nerves after a day or two.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

The double shot blew a jagged hole in the ice-fall in the vicinity of the unexpected visage, sending stinging fragments of ice in all directions.

The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

"On the Everest climb, after I came through the ice-fall, I saw a man sitting on an outcrop in the lotus position, with his eyes shut and a tartan tam -- o" -- shanter on his head, chanting the old mantra: om mani padm" hum. "

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

We then came on east a bit, and gradually got worse and worse going over an ice-fall, having great trouble to prevent sledge taking charge, but eventually got down and then made N.W. or N. into the land, and camped right by the moraine under the great sandstone cliffs of Mt. Buckley, out of the wind and quite warm again: it was a wonderful change.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

In afternoon continued bearing more and more towards Mount Darwin: we got round one of the main lines of ice-fall and looked back up to it ....

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

_ We had one biscuit and some tea after a night's sleep on very hard and irregular blue ice amongst the ice-fall crevasses.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

Rising they looked round them to find above them an ice-fall 300 feet high down which they had fallen: above it the snow was still drifting, but where they stood there was peace and blue sky.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

I was in the lead, and suddenly coming over a ridge above a steep ice-fall, I caught sight of the Mackellar Islets and the old "Piano" berg.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920