Method of sliding down a mountain. Can include sitting, standing, and crouching. Steep back wall of a cirque. Extreme form of AMS resulting from swelling of brain tissue. Treatment usually involves descent and administration of drugs, including calcium channel blockers.
Treatment typically includes administered oxygen, rapid descent and steroids.
Used as a walking stick, for balance, for belays, anchors, self-arrests, and for climbs. A mountaineer on steep snow or ice should never be without an ice axe. Helicopter used in search and rescue efforts on Denali. Rocks, silt, and boulders deposited along the sides of alpine glaciers. Presence indicates very high winds aloft.