Opening a beer bottle using a mountaineering ice ax
Yes, this is perhaps the most important question ever to be asked in this forum, touching as it does not merely upon matters of life and death but on questions of ...
beer ...
itself!
I have heard that it's possible to use an ice ax to open a bottle of beer, but when I tried it with my Black Diamond mountain ax, I couldn't get it to work. The adze hole didn't seem to fit in any useful way over the bottle cap.
Is there in fact a way to do this?
I did notice, by the way, that a copy of Freedom of the Hills works. I support the edge of the cap on the edge of the cover, and then I hit the cap with my fist. This doesn't work with ordinary paperback books because the cardboard cover isn't strong enough, so you just chew a bite out of the book. But because FotH has a laminated cover, it's strong enough to hold under the impact and pop off the cap.
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The same way you would with the spine of a knife or other flat piece of metal with enough thickness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NYyRLGUMCY
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