SNOW CORNICE FORMED BY ACTI ON OF WIND ON THE RIDGE OF A HIGH PEAK. Its great danger to climbers is due to the fact that when it falls it breaks away for some distance inwards. Cornices sometime project thirty feet or more from the crest of the mountain.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 14 December 1907, Page 10
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49SNOW CORNICE FORMED BY ACTI ON OF WIND ON THE RIDGE OF A HIGH PEAK. Its great danger to climbers is due to the fact that when it falls it breaks away for some distance inwards. Cornices sometime project thirty feet or more from the crest of the mountain. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 14 December 1907, Page 10
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