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- mountaineer's axe: a lightweight tool resembling an axe, used by mountaineers to cut handholds and footholds in ice and provide additional balance during a slide down a snow-covered slope

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Mountaineering (Getty Images/James Balog / Tony Stone Images)

Routes moderately covered with snow can be safely climbed using an ice axe to cut steps, probe crevasses, give balance, and belay the rope. Steeper...

Ice (Robert Hernandez/Photo Researchers, Inc.)

Ice, water in the solid state. (Frozen forms of other substances, such as carbon dioxide, are also known as ices.) Ice is colourless and...

Figure Skating (Liaison Agency)

Figure Skating, competitive sport that involves skaters moving across an ice rink performing a series of jumps, spins, turns, jumps, and (in pairs...

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Ice on the Moon (NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY)

Ice on the Moon

Ice-Breaker (Joyce Photographics/Photo Researchers, Inc.)

Ice Climbing (Getty Images/James Balog / Tony Stone Images)

Sea Ice (Anna E. Zuckerman/Tom Stack and Associates)

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Ice Extent During the Last Ice Age

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