But far above, I could see huge boulders frozen into the sheer ice slope.
Shaken, I followed their lead up melting ice slopes mixed with loose rock and mud for the next six hours.
In summer a stream, fed by the ice slopes at its south end, runs in this valley.
A wide ice slope led gently up to the pass.
They're doing tricks using the ice slopes, and Pingu decides to have a go.
There was a good ice slope leading up to rime of rocks that would take us to this secondary top.
Three hundred feet from the bottom of the ice slope, Chen abruptly keeled over and lost consciousness.
On a true ice slope however, an ice axe is rarely able to effect a self-arrest.
The summit attempt itself was started along the Western ice slope of the Lenin glacier.
