How to Use ice ax in a Sentence

ice ax

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  • Yet that tiny snap would lead to the world’s first carbon-fiber ice ax, the Black Prophet.
    — Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2014
  • Boots, crampons and an ice ax rent for $35 for three days.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • And then Mira and Anya show up to find Kristen screaming on the ground with the ice ax next to her.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 July 2021
  • The bloodstained ice ax used to kill Leon Trotsky in 1940 has resurfaced for the first time in more than six decades.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
  • That was why the Sherpas with their oxygen masks and ice axes had come this far, this high, more than a year later.
    — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The Sherpas connected Ghosh to a new rope, anchored in a rock about 30 feet uphill, and used ice axes to dig and pry the body from the snow.
    — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • At one point Milligan duct-taped his ice ax to a ski pole as a precaution.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Perhaps his most famous invention was the first all-steel ice ax.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Unable to hide it any longer and truly broken down, Kristen confessed to her crime with the murder weapon, the ice ax, in her hand.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 July 2021
  • That can include not only snowshoes and ski poles but also an ice ax and crampons.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Allen was seen carrying a green Osprey backpack, ice ax and crampons and was using a green Nemo tent.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
  • There’s loud knocking at the door, Kristen grabs her ice ax and heads into the backyard … and finds a bloody Orson LeRoux hanging around.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 July 2021
  • As in, carrying 60 meters of rope, ice axes, and a base camp, including the kitchen, into thin alpine air.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2018
  • In an area called the School Room, Chapko demonstrated how to kick our crampons into the ice, then swiftly swing one ice ax at a time overhead.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The season-one finale heavily implies that Kristen had enough, went to Orson’s home with an ice ax, and bludgeoned the guy to death.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 June 2021
  • On Everest, the more experienced Sherpas showed Kanchha how to walk with crampons and use an ice ax.
    — Freddie Wilkinson, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The climb from the south is not considered technical, but the Forest Service recommends use of crampons and an ice ax.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2018
  • Today’s Ryan McCarty construction was like clinging to the side of a mountain with an ice ax for me, or at least the southwest corner was.
    — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Libecki regularly swings the stove like a weapon into a rock or hits it with an ice ax to remove ice from the exterior.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2020
  • One member of our team dived onto the picket that was holding the near end of their rope and hammered in his ice ax to back it up, while others used a second line to pull the climbers back to safety.
    — Mark Synnott, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
  • The test involved various traverses on steep ice that gauged candidates’ skills with crampons and ice axes.
    — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Her social-media presence bears this out: there’s Lulu doing a handstand on a beach, and hoisting an ice ax in the air, and pumping out push-ups, and whitewater kayaking, and diving off a rock into a blue pool of water.
    — Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 29 July 2019
  • Leclerc pushed the cutting edge of alpinism by soloing increasingly ambitious alpine lines with only an ice ax and a pack, both captivating and terrifying the climbing world.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2021

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