How to Use icefall in a Sentence

icefall

noun

• The icefall gave way to a barren strip of gray moraine dotted with yellow and orange tents, the remnants of the season's Base Camp.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• Come in the spring when the cascades are at their most dramatic, or hit the park in winter for eagle watching and icefalls.
  — Sarah Feldberg, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2017
• The siphons lowered the height of the lake by nearly 20 feet, but they were damaged in recent icefall, and only two are now working.
  — Nick Miroff, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• On March 23, an icefall buried and killed one climber, Jake Breitenbach.
  — Sewell Chan, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• Atop K2’s near-vertical slopes, glacial icefalls dislodge car-size hunks of ice.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 9 May 2017
• The ropes and ladders that a team of Sherpa guides lashed across the chasms in the notorious Khumbu icefall had to be fixed daily rather than the usual once a week.
  — Adam Skolnick, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• Climbers have reported cracks appearing in the ice overnight, per Rosie Frost of Euronews, and avalanches and icefalls are expected to become more common.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• After last year’s avalanche, which killed 16 high-altitude workers in the icefall, the government canceled the season and extended permits one year.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 4 May 2015
• Time reports that the Nepalese government has already forbidden climbers from traversing the icefall, forcing them instead to take a longer, more difficult—but less avalanche-prone—route.
  — Will Egensteiner, Outside Online, 23 Feb. 2015
• On the Langshisha Glacier, Dawa Yangzum easily navigated the uneven icefall and gaping crevasses.
  — Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
• The icefall is a particularly deadly section that becomes even more perilous later in the day as the sun warms the mountain, leading to avalanches, rockfalls and collapsing ice towers.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Messner and Habeler personally led the way into the icefall, with Sherpas carrying aluminum ladders to create bridges over the chasms.
  — Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2017
• The cold air could accompany significant icefall throughout southern Texas as well as North and South Carolina.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2022
• Traditionally, guides would determine the safety of a summit attempt based on objective hazards like rockfall, icefall, and weather.
  — Outside Online, 29 May 2022
• However, these proposals present an economic conundrum for Sherpas, whose wages could be reduced because they are paid, in part, per trip through the icefall, according to Jennifer Peedom, director of the 2015 documentary Sherpa.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2016

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024