Ice Climbing is among few top most adventurous games in the world, which has maximum adventure and greatest risk.
This game is meant for only those individuals, who have courage and valor in abundance. If you like to climb on the walls of ice in subzero temperature, Ice Climbing sport is for you.
Ice climbing is a part of mountaineering, where you have to climb a mountain covered with thick snow sheet, with using same basic techniques, equipments and safety measures, yet with few more tools to help in climbing on scale vertical sheets of ice.
Ice climbing is little difficult than mountaineering or rock climbing, here you climb over slippery surface of ice.
That’s a reason climber should go through proper training and should have experience, control and good judgmental power. To climb the ice covered mountain you need some special tools like ice axe, ice screws and crampons.
The process to climb on ice is start with the digs the front point of crampon into the ice by climber. In next step, climber holds his body weight on the crampon and swings his axe up. Once the axe is lodged firmly in the ice above him, he pulls himself up and repeats entire exercise to climb up carefully.
The ice tools include wrist loops, reverse curve sharp picks and hammer attachments. The other tools and items are boots, non-cotton and waterproof garments, and purified water bottles.
Always include three layers of insulation for your upper body, a synthetic parka, and two layers for your lower body. Gloves, mittens, hat, sunscreen, goggles, gaiters and extra woolen or synthetic socks are very important. Shovels, crampons, long ice axe, avalanche beacons, helmets, rode and harnesses should be part of your climbing kitty. |
