From the category archives:

Ice Climbing

Winter climbing tips

by Tom Markiewicz on February 5, 2005

Jack Roberts, climbing guide and author, has some useful “tech tips” on his site. These include secrets to staying warm and keeping winter fun, preparation for long winter alpine days, and Jack’s twelve golden rules for better leading on ice.

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The science of ice for climbers

by Tom Markiewicz on February 3, 2005

Anyone who has climbed ice knows how fragile and changing the medium can be. For more insight into the science of ice formation, I recommend this article on how ice climbs form, deform, change, and fall right apart.
An excerpt from the author, Will McCarthy:
Ice is weird stuff, though climbing it might just be weirder. Ice-climbing [...]

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