How to Use icefall in a Sentence

icefall

noun

• Elite Sherpas, called icefall doctors, go in first.
  — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
• From a ladder to paradise, an icefall then turns into a deadly trap.
  — Jacopo Pasotti, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2024
• With a settling crack, the icefall adjusts its position once more.
  — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
• This year’s season was delayed after a huge section of the icefall broke off and blocked the route to the summit.
  — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
• Come in the spring when the cascades are at their most dramatic, or hit the park in winter for eagle watching and icefalls.
  — Sarah Feldberg, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2017
• Most visitors simply hike to the icefalls and admire their beauty, but there are also those who choose to go ice climbing.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
• The siphons lowered the height of the lake by nearly 20 feet, but they were damaged in recent icefall, and only two are now working.
  — Nick Miroff, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• On March 23, an icefall buried and killed one climber, Jake Breitenbach.
  — Sewell Chan, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• The park’s waterfalls flow strongest from March through June and transform into dramatic icefalls in winter.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
• The ropes and ladders that a team of Sherpa guides lashed across the chasms in the notorious Khumbu icefall had to be fixed daily rather than the usual once a week.
  — Adam Skolnick, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• According to the park, there are usually around eight visitor-accessible icefalls.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
• Since the shape of icefall keeps changing, icefall doctors struggle to locate the previous climbing route, which complicates setting the new route each season.
  — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
• Because the only way to get back to base camp was via that icefall, Whittaker chose to stay above it on the mountain for five steady weeks as more camps were established up Everest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
• After last year’s avalanche, which killed 16 high-altitude workers in the icefall, the government canceled the season and extended permits one year.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 4 May 2015
• Time reports that the Nepalese government has already forbidden climbers from traversing the icefall, forcing them instead to take a longer, more difficult—but less avalanche-prone—route.
  — Will Egensteiner, Outside Online, 23 Feb. 2015
• Clear walls offer uninterrupted views of glacial icefalls and the shimmering frozen lake just outside, giving guests the ultimate front-row seat to nature’s icy masterpiece.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• Traditionally, guides would determine the safety of a summit attempt based on objective hazards like rockfall, icefall, and weather.
  — Outside Online, 29 May 2022
• Climbers have reported cracks appearing in the ice overnight, per Rosie Frost of Euronews, and avalanches and icefalls are expected to become more common.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The icefall is a particularly deadly section that becomes even more perilous later in the day as the sun warms the mountain, leading to avalanches, rockfalls and collapsing ice towers.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• When January arrives, the waterfalls often transform into icefalls.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2026
• Messner and Habeler personally led the way into the icefall, with Sherpas carrying aluminum ladders to create bridges over the chasms.
  — Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2017
• From navigating the treacherous icefall to climbing the Lhotse Face, a sheer cliff of steep snow and ice, as climbers battle fierce winds and struggle for breath at altitudes humans cannot survive in.
  — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
• The cold air could accompany significant icefall throughout southern Texas as well as North and South Carolina.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2022
• On the Langshisha Glacier, Dawa Yangzum easily navigated the uneven icefall and gaping crevasses.
  — Anna Callaghan, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
• In 2014, an avalanche on Everest killed 16 people, all Nepali workers who were fixing ropes in the icefall, which led to a strike and the closure of the rest of the season.
  — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
• Palazzo Parigi also treats guests to one of the largest spas in Milan and boasts a stunning indoor swimming pool, a Finnish sauna, a hammam, a hot tub, and an icefall (the equivalent of an ice plunge).
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2024
• Lama Kazi Sherpa, of the SPCC, told Reuters that his team located Hillary Dawa above Base Camp near the icefall and brought him down to safety.
  — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 5 June 2026
• However, these proposals present an economic conundrum for Sherpas, whose wages could be reduced because they are paid, in part, per trip through the icefall, according to Jennifer Peedom, director of the 2015 documentary Sherpa.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2016