Hillary, a big man, had greater upper body strength than Norgay, so he generally took the lead to carve out steps with his ice-ax. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He darted back to his bunk in Paradise House, to return almost immediately with a heavy .45 revolver and an ice-ax. ❋ Various, (1973)
The ice-ax in my hand got red hot, and hissed on the ice. ❋ Various, (1973)
Barclay lurched to his feet and dove forward with an ice-ax. ❋ Various, (1973)
The revolver dropped to the hard-packed snow of the trail, and Barclay saw the ice-ax shift into defensive position. ❋ Various, (1973)
The Thing launched itself at Connant, the powerful arms of the man swung the ice-ax flatside first at what might have been a hand. ❋ Various, (1973)
The broken half of the bronze ice-ax was still buried in the queer skull. ❋ Various, (1973)
“How do you know?” demanded Connant, hefting the ice-ax he had seized a moment before. ❋ Various, (1973)
A few spikes in his shoes, some hardtack and cheese with an emergency flask in his pockets, a coil of rope and a small hatchet that might serve equally well as an ice-ax or to clear undergrowth on the lower slopes, was ample equipment, and he was off to reconnoiter the mountainside fully an hour in advance of the packer whom ❋ Ada Woodruff Anderson (N/A)
I don't suppose there's an ice-ax in the country, and I never saw a party roped. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)
It was 3,122 feet long, -- over half a mile; every man and me was on foot, and had on his green veil and his blue goggles, and his white rag around his hat, and his coil of rope over one shoulder and under the other, and his ice-ax in his belt, and carried his alpenstock in his left hand, his umbrella (closed) in his right, and his crutches slung at his back. ❋ Unknown (1879)
It was 3,122 feet long -- over half a mile; every man and me was on foot, and had on his green veil and his blue goggles, and his white rag around his hat, and his coil of rope over one shoulder and under the other, and his ice-ax in his belt, and carried his alpenstock in his left hand, his umbrella ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
I realize I am without an ice-ax, crampons, a piton, traversing ropes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
a grubhoe, a tool resembling a mountaineer's ice-ax. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)
Benning, will you stop hefting that damned ice-ax?” ❋ Various, (1973)
Wolf-wind howling in his sleep — winds droning and the evil, unspeakable face of that monster leering up as he’d first seen it through clear, blue ice, with a bronze ice-ax buried in its skull. ❋ Various, (1973)
1.
[Mountain climber]: "Hey man I like your new ice axe. Much better than my old [rusted] one."
2.
Idiotic [maniac] with an ice axe: "Hey look there's someone to kill. I have a weapon. Maybe I will kill that person because I have a weapon." ❋ Sdc29 (2006)
P1: Hey bro, I played Minecraft for 30 hours recently.
P2: good thing you have [axe-ice chill] deodorant to keep you [fresher] than a blue [loli].
P1: indeed my fellow manly degenerate! ❋ Diiiamond (2022)
