Snow cornice even being on the snow on top of rock exposes the alpinist to hazard in this situation. The best practice in mountaineering is to stay far enough back from the edge so as not to be able to see the drop, as an approximate metric of exposure. In avalanche safety, cornices are a high avalanche danger as they often break and trigger larger avalanches that permeate several snow layers. Cornices are particularly vulnerable to collapse during periods of solar warming. Snow cornice A snow cornice or simply cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is an overhanging edge of snow
A few acres of snow to be referenced in the modern era. Canadian poet paid himself a revenge on Voltaire in his poem "" ("Under the statue of Voltaire"), published in (1887). In the 1980s, the marketers of the Quebec edition of the game "Trivial Pursuit" punningly named their product "" (A few acres of traps). The name of the board game "A Few Acres of Snow" is derived from this phrase. Designed by Martin Wallace, it is about the French and British conflict over what is now Canada. A few acres of snow "A few acres of snow" (in the original French, "", ,