It is rudely delineated on the map of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928 30, and indicated as " low ice cliffs " that rise above the ice shelf in this part of the bay.
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It was surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, and so named by them because the ice cliff overhanging the spot where geological specimens were collected seemed like the sword of Damocles.
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The Discovery maneuvered into a little bay in front of the 200-foot-high ice cliffs of Nellie Juan Glacier, named for the schooner that carried Capt . Samuel Applegate in 1867 as he mapped the coastline.
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Not far away, they found tracks leading over shale rock near the crater and down the edge of a stomach-churning ice cliff at the head of the White River Glacier, now known as Ingraham Glacier.
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This East Face route, named " Third Semester ", involves 8, 500 feet ( 2, 600 m ) of 50-80 degree snow, ice and rock capped with a 300-foot ( 90 m ) vertical ice cliff.
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"' Streitenberger Cliff "'( ) is an abrupt rock and ice cliff 1.3 nautical miles ( 2.4 km ) west of Reed Ridge, along the northwest margin of the Ford Massif in the Thiel Mountains, Antarctica.
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The feature is rudely delineated on the map of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928 30, and is indicated as " low ice cliffs " that rise above the ice shelf in this part of the bay.
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The volcano lost nearly 100 meters ( 330 feet ) in height because so much ice melted from its peak, said Luis Edgar Arias, a mountaineer who guides climbers up Nevado de Ruiz's ice cliffs and black-dust slopes.
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There are the erudite New York City birdwatcher, the light-hearted Port Orchard skier, and the Hatfield, Pa ., climber who paused under an ice cliff in 1981 _ and died moments later with 10 others in the nation's worst mountaineering accident.
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A cropped version, captioned " The Top of Our Continent, " was published in 1908 with Cook's account of how he had braved avalanches and ice cliffs to make the first ascent of Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America.
