How to Get Started Ice Climbing

February 1, 2016

For ice climbing enthusiasts, mid-winter is the perfect time to get up close and personal with the side of a glacier or frozen waterfall. Their tools of choice are the picks, ropes, axes and crampons that allow the seemingly impossible to scale these slick and treacherous surfaces.

Ice climbing evolved out of rock climbing and similar mountaineering activities. In high altitudes climbers had to learn…

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