857-32900 - Lizz Grenard at the Ouray Ice Festival uses ice axes and crampons as tools and a rope and harness for safety. The Ouray Ice Festival is held once a year during the Martin Luther King weekend in Ouray, Colorado in the Uncompahgre Gorge.
857-32898 - Steve Giddings makes his way up a frozen waterfall at the Ouray Ice Festival in Ouray, Colorado. Ice climbers require ice axes, crampons, rope and harness as well as a great deal of balance and focus. The Ouray Ice Festival is located in the Uncompahgre Gorge and is held once a year during Martin Luther King weekend.
857-32897 - Kelly Cordes makes his way up a frozen waterfall using ice axes and crampons as well as balance and focus. The Ouray Ice Park is located in the Uncompahgre Gorge in Ouray Colorado. The Park is funded mostly by the Ouray Ice Festival that happens every Martin Luther King weekend and by the festivals corporate sponsers.
857-29723 - Rob Raker ascends a vertical pitch of glacial ice high on the Cassin Ridge route of Denali (Mt. McKinley), Alaska in May 1990. This pitch is the technical crux of the route which ascends the South Face to the summit at 20,320 feet, the highest point in North America. (Photo by Kevin Steele, Aurora)
909-242 - A Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) shaking its fur after climbing out of the water . Northwest of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Archipelago, High Norwegian Arctic
911-6228 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6229 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-7544 - Climber being blasted by spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6232 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-7434 - Climbers being blasted by spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6226 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6231 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-7436 - Climber being blasted by spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6230 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6291 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6224 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6227 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
911-6225 - The mountaineer, Mike Withers, ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere in the Lake District, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe