Gear Review: Salewa Quick Screw - 19cm ice screw

The formation of very hard ice – due to the temperatures dropping as low as -17 degrees overnight, sometimes not exceeding -13 degrees in the daylight, meant that for the ice screw to ‘bite’ meant physically having to put a lot of force through the ice screw, requiring more effort to try and get them to attach into the hard ice whilst wearing gloves. In conditions that cold, it’s also not advisable to put gear in your mouth as a means of multi-tasking as this can lead to serious injury , including skin being stuck on frozen metal! Luckily, having a Salewa ice screw, with its sharp teeth and additional functionalities of integral winder, carrier and quick draw made it easy to deploy. It was convenient to deploy as the Salewa Quick screw for when the moves feel awkward, or just for the convenience of having an ice screw that's straightforward to clip to the rope.