Ice axe arrest / self arrest 

The technique you taught saved me two years ago on Mt Shasta. And I was able to make summit. Thank you.

The technique you taught saved me two years ago in the kitchen. And I was able to make it to the fridge. Thank you

Just want to say a big thank you for this video. I watched it the week before I climbed great end via cust gully. I was 10 metres from the top then the snow gave way. And I fell two thirds of the way down. I thought I wasn't going to stop. Very scary. But believed in the technique. Thanks again. My climb was in Feb 2020.

Never been on a mountain outside of the Ozarks but planning my first trip now. Cut and clear videos of lifesaving skills like this are critical. Thanks for it.

Best videos on the subject. Thank you and keep posting!

Good skills! 0:48 I wish someone had told our Royal Marine Mountain Leader instructor that in 1987. There was a decidedly steep drop-off of a couple of hundred feet of you didn't get the ice axe arrest right first time. A hell of an incentive!

highly appreciated and very valuable information. Thank you Glenmore Lodge!

This video saved my life this past weekend at Mt Adams, thank you so much!

GREAT video. Informative, to the point, and obviously a seasoned expert... This will be required viewing for my mountaineering wife who is to be receiving a Petzl Glacier 60 for Christmas. Thanks so much!

I'm so grateful for this video. This just saved my girlfriend and me in Mount Fuji. Thank you so much!!

Thank you thank you thank you! The slow motion was excellent! I have watched this a dozen times and your instruction is so wonderful! Now I know how to use my ax!

Great video instruction. The slow mo is very helpful!!

Fantastic video. Just what I needed thank you 😊👏🏻

Another +1 thanks for this video. It probably saved my life a few days ago climbing Middle Teton. I slipped coming down the couloir with my cramp-ons still on. Fell a long way and luckily missed all the rocks before I was eventually able to arrest.

This video saved me after slipping down a very steep slope on Iztaccihuatl in Mexico. Thank you!!!!

Best demonstration I've seen. Thanks so much

Your videos are great. I will practice this until I can do it as smoothly as you.

It is alway appreciated this kind of information.

Excellent presentation. So clear too!

Excellent demonstration and presentation... I can't wait to practice this...

Thank you so much for these lessons...I am absolute mountaineering begginer and they are really really valuable for me...Keep up doing the great work.

It doesn't even snow in my city but still it's 4 AM and I like to watch survival tip videos.

I feel like this is one of those videos that legitimately saved peoples lives.

I've never hiked up a snowy mountain in my life and the closest is 17 hours drive.... but when I saw the video pop up I figured I shouldn't take any chances. I'm gonna have all the moves at the next slip-n-slide.

Excellent. Intelligent and informative.

Excellent demo

This video saved my life. I was skydiving with my friends and both of my parachutes failed, so I used this technique and eventually stopped on the ground.

Nicely done, slow-motion is informative.

This is awesome. We just hiked to Everest Base Camp, and it peaked my interest in more technical climbing. Not sure where I can practice this in Pittsburgh PA (it rarely snows here anymore even in the winter), but I'm going to research! :)

Great instructional video. Thorough and straight to the point.

Great video !

Watching this knowing im never going to use it but still loving every second

This dude has the best manner of speaking

excellent video, I find this very informative , thank you!

I've never gone mountain climbing, nor do I intend to do so, but I still watched the whole video :D

The theory is great and training is never wasted but... This has happened to me twice: 1. Disorientation traversing slope in a bad weather and white-out and 2. Avalanched from gully by a collapsed cornice (best part of 1000' in total including a 30 foot step out of the gully to the slope) - what a cruncher!. Real situations are not much like braking on snow on nursery slopes and I must say that the acceleration and sheer speed are what you need to be prepared for. The first time braking helped but I was so disoriented - I stopped eventually and climbed back up to my traverse line. The second time I tried but the pick snatched out and it was really very hard to get my weight on the pick. In the end I ended up using the brim of my fibreglass helmet as the brake and that was suprisingly effective.

Just learned a valuable skill. Not sure when I'll get to use it since I don't have an ice axe. Also don't have ice.

RU-vid: Wanna learn how to stop yourself from sliding on ice with an ice axe? Me: I never hike on snow... RU-vid: So you wanna? Me: ok...

Thanks now I finally know how to react to situations that could happen if I leave my room! The video was really good though!

Great explanation!

i am now immune to falling off damage when equipped with an axe, thanks

Great instructions and video. Thank you

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I tried to climb a very popular mountain in my country called Chimborazo, we had a fell, the guide died, was a horrible experience than I'm getting better day by day, if I had saw this video a month ago, another will be the history, thank you !!

Absolutely brilliant...

This guy is awesome man

damn, you are quite good at this technique

As a jiu jitsu black belt who's never done any ice climbing this technique makes a lot of sense. It's very similar to getting power in a cross choke.

thanks for details and slow motion))

Litterally never seen more than one inch of snow in my life and probably will never need to use this but this tutorial seemed great and I guess I know now!

Nice video , thanks.

Great video

I don’t plan on mountaineering yet in my life, but while skiing I almost fell off the face of the mountain, from now on I plan to get an axe so I won’t have to worry about that so much

great video

I'm 9 years late, I'm not an ice climber, but I still watched

Awesome info Thank you

The technique you taught saved me two years ago in the bathroom. And I was able to make it to the toilet again. Thank you.

Thanks!

even though this is an informational video from nearly 10 years ago, that slope looks really fun to slide down on just by yourself with no sleds

This is great. Thanks a ton!!

This saved my life once, while climbing a Fourteener in Colorado (Wilson Peak, near Telluride). Without the ice axe I would've plummeted down a 1500 foot snowfield into a big pile of jagged rocks

Thanks

thanks

Excellent.

Veri good video, tanks

Ive never even seen snow but im sure this video will come in handy

Wow, thank you!

We did this with crampons on at your winter skills course in 2010 with lots of emphasis on keeping your crampons up. IIRC keeping your crampons out of contact with the ground was one of the things we were trying to learn by practising with them on. It makes sense to me that you would want to find out that your feet need to come up during training on a modest slope rather than at that instant of entering a cartwheel when trying to employee these techniques for real for the first time. Did you find that an unacceptable number of injuries were happening when you did the training with crampons on and were forced to switch?

Excellent

very nice slow-mos

Wonderful

Really nice. Thanks for sharing that. Can you think of a good place to practice this technique in Brecon Beacons?

thanks for sharing

as a kid i loved doing this

very helpful and eas to understand video

Real survival skill!

What did that guy use to wrap his axe near the top? Looks like a grip tape.

Gracias por compartir ¡¡

I live in florida and I dont plan on doing any mountain climbing but I watched this whole video just in case

I just want to know where do the mountaineers take their training while coming to climb mountains in Pakistan? And what tools play the most important role beside oxygen erc,, Rope or crampons?

I'm not an alpinist and will probably never need to use an ice axe but this is valuable knowledge to possess, thank you!

ah yes. midnight youtube content

I’m never gonna do this, but now I know how.

Good to know the mentioned techniques, however it's clearly visible that Mark also uses the spike for arresting (sometimes the pick doesn't even touch the ice) and he's also driving his elbow into the snow. It's not always possible to do those, but they seem useful for him in these clips.

It's 3am, I've never ice climbed and never will - why am I here?

"don't run with scissors!" yeah, but falling down a mountain with a large, metal spike is okay

idk when ill need to know this but at least now i know

My dumbass thought he was gonna arrest someone with ice axe lol

A slope with snow.

Dont worry, this is instinctive. It happend to me, 1 st time on ice, on a very steep glacier. Without thinking and never be taught, that is exactly what you do. And honestly it is quite fun. I was afraid only later, when i was told there were big crevasse very close of where i stopped, after 200 meters of slide.

Im not an ice climber nor am i planning on becoming one. But its 3 am so nothings out of question.

I nearly died this way on Elbrus, very bad memories.... I think I will leave it to more experienced ones....

thank for video.a lot.i just think hillay step or bottleneck.many climber are over,exausted.from 7/8000meter and 15/20kg rucksac,is hard to made this.but not all case.thank

This is great when I ever leave my bedroom

never been up a mountain and i hate the cold, i dont know why im watching this

Me living in Hawaii with 0% chance of snow: *interesting*

Very most people will do this based on instinct. Key is try not to panic and keep your thoughts together :)

How Mallory was killed (ice axe to forehead). Made me wonder if his leg was broken in a fall or because of not keeping his feet up during arrest

très bien sur des pentes faibles (

Maybe this is a dumb question: When you press down with your shoulder onto the axe why doesn't it... hurt?