Rime ice on Syme Hut, Egmont National Park. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

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You don’t want to be anywhere near the mountains in the conditions that form rime ice, but witnessing the aftermath is mesmerising, writes Shaun Barnett

Ice has its own language: sastrugi, needles, pancakes, hoar frost and rime are among the many forms that frozen water can assume. Rime is ice on steroids; strange formations that grow like horizontal stalagmites on any protruding surface, be it a sign, marker pole, cairn or hut. On a recent trip to Syme Hut in […]

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