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There are lots of ways to hold your ice tools, here are some of the main ones and when to use them:

#1: High Dagger (Piolet Poignard): Handy in low angle terrain and down climbing, push the pick into the snow/ice around waist level. If your tool has an adze on the back, you would also wrap your thumb around the bottom of the adze. And this position could also include wrapping your pinky and ring finger around the shaft.

#2: Middle Dagger (Piolet Appui): For this one, wrap your hand around the tool just below the pick and punch the pick into the snow/ice. This lets you get a little more force behind it and dig your pick in deeper for more security in low/moderate angle terrain.

#3: Upper Pommel (Piolet Traxion): Used in steeper ice climbing, holding this pommel gives you a way to comfortably move up the tool without having to spend energy making another swing.

#4: Lower Pommel (Piolet Traxion): This is the classic position that climbers swing and pull from. The large pommel gives you a comfortable resting position and an easy place to rotate the tool around your hand as you swing it into the ice.

It is really important for ice and alpine climbers to have a large toolbox when they go into the mountains. The ice tool, when used properly, can be one of the most valuable ones!

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