Sentences with word «icefall»

Climb and explore the spectacular icefall terrain with Peterpans» variety of different tour options.

Franz Josef is the more popular glacier, as it's steeper and has more dramatic icefalls.

Spectacular views of the Hooker and Mueller glaciers, Mount Sefton icefall, and views of New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki / Mount Cook — 3754 metres (the Maori name translates to «Cloud Piercer»).

a 25 day walking journey from a bus at Dolalghat to the Everest icefall and back to Lukla airstrip.

For a year ago, whilst descending from another successful Everest summit attempt, he, along with some fellow sherpas, nearly came to a very sticky end, when the famed Khumbu icefall turned to slush and collapsed.

Although relatively low on the mountain, climbers say the icefall is one of the most dangerous places on Mount Everest.

After landing and under your pilot's expert guidance, you'll get to explore these glaciers massive crevasses, frozen landscapes, icefalls, glacial streams and ice pools.

The combination of melting at the base of the glacier and the weight of ice and snow above also leads to sudden avalanches and icefalls.

The glacier has four distinct topographic sections: 1) Steep peripheral northern and western margins draining into the main valley portion of the glacier; 2) A low slope (40) upper accumulation zone from 1220 m to 1050 m; 3) A steeper section (60) in the ablation zone as the glacier turns west from 1050 - 850 m; 4) An icefall (180) leading to the two - fingered terminus at 600 m.

We have been recording the temperature at 2 am when the Sherpas are usually leaving to go through the icefall.

Today, on 8th May, it is as warm as it is normally at the end of the season and it will only get warmer, which means the danger in the icefall will increase.

There have only been a few days when it was colder than -10 C, which is unusual and not really cold enough to be moving through the icefall