He had just demonstrated how to control slides on an ice block the size of a basketball court in the center of the track.

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The first many people had heard of him was when, in early July, an avalanche caused by a toppling ice-block swept him away, with eight others, on Mont Maudit, beside Mont Blanc.

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For example, it has been shown how polar glaciers speed up when the floating ice shelves that block their way to the ocean are removed.

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We hung a backpack off of an ice screw to block some of the debris funneling down the chute, but mostly all I could do was hold the rope and cower while Jim led up.

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For example, you can also take a block of ice and grind it into tiny particles and use that to absorb methane.

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In another she's frozen in a huge block of ice.

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Gameloft is bringing 23 games to the platform, including Adventures of TinTin, BackStabHD, Block Breaker 3 ULTD, Order and Chaos Online HD and Ice Age Village.

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