abstract:Ice climbing is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water.
White Mountains National Forest officials say 24-year-old James Watts was killed Friday in Huntington Ravine while solo iceclimbing on Pinnacle Gully in Mount Washington's Huntington Ravine.