>>967080>considering he's trailing a ropeDo you not understand the concept of roped glacier travel? Please take a minute to google that term and take a look at what a roped mountain climbing team looks like.
>bu we don't know what's above or below him, and he might be following a seam of decent ice.That's not true. We can clearly see that there are miles of glaciers below him. This is most likely a mountain of a similar character to Ranier, if it's not Mt. Rainier itself. First of all, you don't hike all day to near the peak of a glacier-encrusted mountain just to do ice climbing at the top. Almost all ice climbing is done on waterfalls, which would be found well below a glacier. Second, even if he were doing ice climbing that far up this mountain, he still had to rope into other people to get up there. The fact that you're roped into a team of people is intended to negate to need to use anchors. While I agree it looks kind of like an anchor, it's almost certainly something else, not intended to take his weight if he falls.
