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Waterfall Ice climbing

Pictures by QT Luong

[Alps Ice]
[Canadian Rockies Ice 1]
[Canadian Rockies Ice 2]
[US Ice]
[The Theft]

Climbing a waterfall ? During the winter, some of them freeze solid. Using the cold mountain tools such as ice axes and crampons opens then a whole new world of strange and ephemeral beauty made of curtains, stalactites, columns, and cauliflowers. But beware, it is cold, steep, and sometimes fragile...

Information on ice climbing on the Cold Mountain page