human
Make a concise location description of a cold mountain in the wilderness with icicles, rocks, cliffs, and ridges.
assistant
The steep ascent to the mountain's tallest peak begins at the base of a sheer cliff, the climb nearly vertical and with very few handholds. A thick layer of ice and frost coats nearly all the rocks, leaving only small patches of dolomite free of the permafrost. Icicles hang from overhead ridges, many of them reaching nearly to the ground before being broken by the harsh mountain wind.