The Steepness: Klem Premrl and Tim Emmett on Helmcken Falls, B.C.
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“Those daggers are really not attached that well to the rock, and sometimes it just takes a small kick and they just collapse and fall down” – Klem Premrl
of Slovenia and Tim Emmett, the UK, on the steepest ice they’ve ever seen: Helmcken Falls, British Columbia. “I mean, it’s the steepest ice you can
find anywhere.”
See “The Hardest Ice Climb on Earth.”
