ice-axes

After a while, we realsied we were the only people walking without pacs … and ice-axes.

Day 13 Les Houches 2009

And the crampons, pickets, ice-screws, and even the hammer-end ice-axes were all made of an unfamiliar translucent plastic rather than metal.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

There were only two ice-axes for the four of us, so Rebuffat and Terray took them as a matter of course.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

Sometimes we slid on our feet, steadying ourselves with our batons or ice-axes, and sometimes I sat on the hard snow and glided like a Turk on a toboggan slide, the tassel of my woollen cap fluttering behind in the wind.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Various

The Doctor, who is an enterprising mountaineer, was himself about to cross, but he did not encourage Jane to go and do likewise, as he said it would be very difficult owing to the late spring, and would probably entail a good deal of work with ropes and ice-axes.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

Harris-tweeded young men pitch golf-bags and ice-axes on the rack, and smoke bulldog pipes in its corridors with an air of easy proprietorship.

Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg

We depôted two half-weekly units for return of the two parties, also all crampons and glacier gear, such as ice-axes, crowbar, spare Alpine rope, etc., personal gear, medical, and in fact everything we could dispense with.

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

In that dim light every proportion was distorted; some of the places we actually did manage to negotiate with ice-axes and Alpine rope looked absolute precipices, and there were always crevasses at the bottom if you slipped.

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

In addition there is a pickaxe, ice-axes, an Alpine rope, a large piece of green Willesden canvas and a bit of board.

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

The 19th being a calm fine day we started at 9.30, with an empty sledge, two ice-axes, Alpine rope, harnesses and skinning tools.

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