Climbing The Fang

Posted by Alex in Pictures, Sports, Travel & Places on October 19, 2008 at 10:45 am



Photo: QT Luong/Terragalleria

Environmental Graffiti blog has a pretty neat post about frozen waterfalls – this one is a photo of an ice climber scaling The Fang in Vail, Colorado:

The enormous ice pillar forms from the cascading waterfall only on exceptionally cold winters, and when it does the column can measure up to 50 meters high and has been known to have a base measuring 8 meters wide.

Link – via Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival


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3 comments to "Climbing The Fang"

  1. scurvy
    October 19th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Alex, I'm afraid you misspelled "wang" in the headline ;-)

  2. Alex
    October 19th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    Scurvy, ya scurvy dawg you! ;)

  3. Ali S.
    October 20th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    @ scurvy

    Zing! *ba dump tish!*


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