ice axe

noun

1. a light axe used by mountaineers for cutting footholds in snow or ice, to provide an anchor point, or to control a slide on snow; it has a spiked tip and a head consisting of a pick and an adze

Example Sentences

Whitney from this point on in the winter season should bring crampons — much larger spikes that attach firmly to mountaineering boots and dig deep into snow and ice to prevent falls – and an ice axe.

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In any case, the debate was settled in Stalin’s favor, not through reasoned debate but via an ice axe buried in Trotsky’s skull by an assassin in 1940.

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Barton said Taylor "thought it'd be a fantastic idea when you were having a scrap to pull an ice axe out and swing it into somebody and it stuck in his head".

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Arran Mountain Rescue warned conditions on Arran's hills were highly changeable and asked climbers to equip themselves for full winter conditions with ice axe and crampons.

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He said this meant crampons and an ice axe were also needed.

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