icecraft en · NOUN
Etymology
From ice + -craft.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The art or skill of climbing on icy terrain.
[…] are steep but short exercises in icecraft — the latter combined with the Eisflanke would give almost 3000 ft. of good ice climbing.
1967, Climber and Rambler, volume 6, page 267:He should pretend, moreover, to be ignorant of the rudiments of icecraft and of the history of mountaineering, and he must be careful not to distinguish too accurately between snow-beds and glaciers and avalanches; […]
1886, The Alpine Journal, volume 12, page 321: