Sentence examples for ice slope from inspiring English sources
Dr. Iverson's nine-member team carried the till up the 79 steps and the ice slope in bucket relays.
On the ice slope below the Éperon one Sherpa was killed, and the party took to the glaciated face of Lhotse on the right.
Speeding like a well-greased sled on an ice slope, this primal tale of a monarch's journey into dispossession and death is exciting, suspenseful, sentimental, and chock full of sex and violence, while just happening to include some of the most beautiful and devastating observations ever uttered about the human condition.
These sold better, and reinforced her fame.Her protagonists were now mostly men facing dreadful deaths, but the voice was still Beryl's, and the beady eyes were missing nothing: a horse's tail "dense as soot", climbers falling on an ice slope "like flies fluttering against a window", a jellyfish going out "like a candle" when it was pulled from the sea.
Also weighing on my mind were that neither Jared nor I had ever ice climbed (the last two pitches of 70 m to the summit are a 55 degree ice slope rated D in Brad Johnson's guidebook) and that one of the twin ropes was cut by Jared and Chuck on Yanapaccha, leaving us with a 60 m and a 35 m pair of twins, which might not be enough to rap off comfortably.
It's a 600-foot ice slope resting on a 45 degree angle, and it's the perfect place to learn basic ice-climbing techniques like which knots to use, proper ice screw placement as well as belaying and anchoring techniques.
Day one was a 12-hour marathon that saw us scrambling up vertiginous ice slopes in crampons, skis tied to our rucksacks, in the freezing darkness.
Along the way we climbed ice slopes, rode horses into Andean cloud forest, watched humming birds dart about the skies, swam in deep rivers, drank beer, ate steak, roast plantain and beans, and discovered a country that welcomes visitors with enthusiastically - utterly distant from Colombia's reputation for being good at narcotics, terrorism and little else.
It is only a decade since I first saw a handful of heavily-laden young men and women striding the length of the College Valley and then slogging up the long shank of the Cheviot just for the pleasure of sliding down the steep ice slopes of the Bizzle on skis.
In the vicinity of Ross's inlet he found a spot where the ice sloped sufficiently to suggest that a landing was possible.
Schwamborn, G., Meyer, H., Fedorov, G., Schirrmeister, L. & Hubberten, H.-W. Ground ice and slope sediments archiving late Quaternary paleoenvironment and paleoclimate signals at the margins of El'gygytgyn Impact Crater, NE Siberia.
