ice-axe

In a similar vein, Manchester City's keeper Joe Hart, whose hairstyle gives him the look of one of those cyborgs who, due to some rogue microchip, is starting to experience human emotions that will eventually end with him weeping pitifully while trying to split Vin Diesel's head open with an ice-axe, declared, "I don't think a footballer should have to live like a monk".

Will Andy Carroll prove the difference that destroys the planet? Harry Pearson 2010

Incidentally I note the murder weapon (ice-axe) had been stolen by our Scally killers from a mountain shop in Snowdonia, in line with the great Scouse tradition in which the A55 is full of Transits taking heroin in one direction and returning with antiques and garden statuary in the other.

Soggy Puddles From The Curate's Paddock Laban 2005

Incidentally I note the murder weapon (ice-axe) had been stolen by our Scally killers from a mountain shop in Snowdonia, in line with the great Scouse tradition in which the A55 is full of Transits taking heroin in one direction and returning with antiques and garden statuary in the other.

Archive 2005-11-27 Laban 2005

Almost anything he needs appears, including miraculously cured, drunken legless mountain climbers and short, retired old weapons experts who seem only half able to trace a simple ice-axe sale through sporting goods stores.

The Last Pentacle of the Sun - Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three deep_bluze 2004

I went with my gear by sea to Tromso, and then inland to a starting-place, and took my ice-axe and rucksack, and said good-bye to the world.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

Instinctively, I rolled over onto my stomach and grabbed the ice-axe shaft with my right hand.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

Instinctively, I rolled over onto my stomach and grabbed the ice-axe shaft with my right hand.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

Instinctively, I rolled over onto my stomach and grabbed the ice-axe shaft with my right hand.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

Instinctively, I rolled over onto my stomach and grabbed the ice-axe shaft with my right hand.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

I did up my sack, put on my gloves and my glasses, seized my ice-axe; one look around and I, too, hurried down the slope.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001