| So, we've been pretty much surrounded by quadraphonic icefall throughout the course of the night. |
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| For all we knew it could well have carried on getting steeper, ending at an icefall or in a crevasse field. |
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| For us a serac is a big block or pinnacle of ice sticking up in the middle of the feature of a glacier called an icefall. |
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| We are all looking forward to going into the base of the icefall tomorrow to try our luck on the crevasse ladders. |
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| From the northeast, toward China, the icefall from Teram Shehr cuts a broad swath across the east side of the Siachen. |
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| And the following day they are base camp bound, which also means the last trip down through the icefall. |
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| Just as Kato's team was making probing forays over the icefall successive avalanches forced a French expedition to switch its climbing route. |
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| These are some of the thoughts running thru our heads as we headed up into the actual icefall today. |
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| But Kato was undeterred even though the French expedition declared the icefall destroyed and unusable. |
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| One swing and one screw at a time we slowly made our way up the bottom icefall. |
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| The icefall route was repaired during the summer, and the Nepalese government issued a climbing permit to a Japanese mountaineer. |
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| In the Khumbu glacier region, the narrows either side of the Khumbu icefall are leucogranite cliffs beneath the Lhotse Detachment, which ramps down to the east. |
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| For the reward will be a classic view of Everest and the Khumbu icefall. |
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| Coming back through the icefall on Friday the boys missed two rock falls by no more than three minutes. |
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| The group took a thrilling helicopter ride over the glacier, which descends some 2,280 feet, terminating in a spectacular icefall that feeds the river. |
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| Everyone wishes to see this enormous, fascinating icefall glistening under a blue sky, as close up as possible. |
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| We loaded as much as we could on them and climbed to camp II, just at the foot of the icefall at an altitude of 3,120 metres. |
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| This is a huge piece of ice that has broken off the icefall and is about as high as a three-story building. |
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| For a time, there was some discussion of trying to repair the damaged route through the icefall, but it was deemed not possible, thus effectively ending climbing on the south side also for that year's spring season. |
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| Route through the icefall leads to the Football Field beyond the skyline. |
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| Ogives are formed when ice from an icefall is severely broken up, increasing ablation surface area during summer. |
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| The first time, we were in an icefall and the whole place shook around us as a block nearby collapsed under the weight of ice above it. |
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| Those trapped at the camps had descended to the icefall to examine the possibility of fixing it with ropes and other equipment dropped by helicopter on Sunday, but it was deemed too hazardous. |
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| The ice that moves through the icefall in summer has more of its surface exposed to melting and is greatly reduced in volume compared with the ice moving through in winter. |
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| In some ways, the North side is logistically easier as it is possible to drive vehicles to base camp and you don't have to go through the icefall. |
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| There are some spectacular views of Mount Cook as well as the icefall and lower glacier. |
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| The climbers were trapped by damage to the route through the Khumbu icefall below camp one, a jumble of crevasses and ice cliffs which is equipped by the so-called Icefall Sherpas with fixed ropes and ladders every year. |
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| Whether on skis, on snowshoes or in crampons, on a glacier, on an icefall or in a gulley, there is no end of variety in the mountains, the favourite playground of the high mountain guide. |
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| And in the morning, at about two or three, you'll hear another team tromping past your tent, heading up into the Icefall. |
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| It happened at the notoriously dangerous Khumbu Icefall, not far above base camp where he had recently mingled with fellow mountaineers. |
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| Other news from Camp I, Vernon Tejas reports to all cybernauts out there that the team's pull through the Icefall yesterday was completed in a very timely fashion. |
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| Sadly one Sherpa, from another team, has now been killed in the Icefall. |
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| Two holes on the Lower Icefall Zone with assay results pending. |
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