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• ow bridge: card game played on a glacier. as in other alpine endeavors, tricks are common, and there is always a dummy.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• erminal moraine: the last glacier you'll ever climb.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• Blaze: unexpected result of overpriming a white gas stove.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• cornice: snow waiting for a climber to step on it before becoming an avalanche.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• heading: going to the latrine. -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982
• fall: good time of year for climbing. -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982
• picket, snow: rank and file member of union internationale des associations d'alpinisme publicly protesting grievances in the dead of winter.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• binding: discomfort caused by tight undergarments.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• bong: sound made by a climber at the conclusion of a fall.
  -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...