Martin Nellen prefers to start the walk down to the ice edge in the early morning.

BBC: The perfect trip: Switzerland

The ice edge broke again, but, breaking it, he pulled himself infinitesimally toward shore, so that, when he went down, his feet found mud sooner.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

Gripping the ice with his sharp claws, the polar bear leaned over the edge of the ice, sniffing the air and taking in the foreign scent of the 50 sweaty, sunburnt tourists, expedition leaders and crew.

BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

He was able to pull Krymzen up onto the ice, but the current was carrying Samara downstream, about 4 or 5 feet from the edge of the ice, her head going in and out of the water, Shaw told a press conference Monday.

CNN: Hero dog helps pull girl from icy river

Eber remembered his coat, out on the ice, at the edge of the black water.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

As a result, the sea is eating away the edge of the ice sheet at a faster rate.

ECONOMIST: The science

Her skates are chunks of steel as long as 13 feet (the crew changes skate length according to ice conditions), with an almost imperceptible curve along the bottom and a razor-sharp edge so that the skate bites hard into the ice.

FORBES: Shiver Me Timbers

Kyocera kitted us out with toques, touch-sensitive gloves and giant black faux-fur coats -- well, Brad chose white -- and led us all into a bar made entirely of ice to launch its new handsets here at CTIA. Kyocera, playing off the tough-guy thing, had the Hydro Xtrm and Edge laid out on slabs of ice in a pretty frosty environment for us to handle with our gloved hands.

ENGADGET

At the edge of the grayish patch he gave the ice a bonk with the butt of his gun.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

"He drew his own boundaries that he didn't want violated on the ice and in the net, and he was always the type of guy who was on the edge of taking a penalty because someone violated his territory, his crease area, " said Mike Gilligan, who coached Thomas at the University of Vermont.

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