The crouching glissade is similar to the standing method except the climber sits back and drags the spike of their ice axe ( held in self-arrest grip ) in the snow.
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The route down the mountain is a quick and easy glissade ( an intentional slide on their backsides ), using the ice tool for rudder and brake, followed by the slow drive out of North Conway.
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It causes amusement in summer, with its tale of the reverend gentleman sheltering beneath a dead and frozen horse and plummeting down near-vertical snow glissades clutching his bible, but is a reminder of the dangers of this area in winter.
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Some people, of course, do heed the gospel's advice to build on rock, and so they build on rock associated with earthquake faults and volcanism and on steep rock overlaid with a frosting of soil that glissades after heavy rain.
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1986-08-30 : Swiss Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet, unprecedented and unrepeated, climbed the north face in a single alpine style push without oxygen, ropes, or tents in 37 hours, and glissaded down in under 5 hours.
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The Timp Glacier is one of the major sources of injury or death to hikers on Timp, particularly when some attempt to " glissade " ( or slide rapidly ) down the snowfield's surface with the assistance of a shovel or other device to save time descending.
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In the descent in atrocious conditions, several Sherpas suffered frostbite Lakpa Chedi later required the amputation of two fingers, and Pasang lost one finger and Birnie, attempting a glissade down the north face, lost control and would have been killed but for the intervention of Da Tsering.
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In situations where they must break trail downhill and thus cannot glissade, snowshoers sometimes run downhill in exaggerated steps, sliding slightly on the snow as they do, an option sometimes called " step sliding . " Also effective, are poles placed in front as you descend in a regular stride.
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The Germans also gained an advantage, from being forced back, as the area most devastated by artillery-fire grew wider and was on the Allied side, which created chronic problems in transporting supplies to the front line, periodically made worse by downpours, which turned roads and tracks into glissades of mud.
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The unusual puncture wound is consistent with one which might be inflicted by an ice axe, leading some to conclude that, while Mallory was descending in a self-arrest " glissade ", sliding down a slope while dragging his ice axe in the snow to control the speed of his descent, his ice axe may have struck a rock and bounced off, striking him fatally.
