In reply to francoisecall:
Within the context of a british climbing forum, Ice climbing is more dangerous for many reasons.
- we have less experience on ice because we only get a few short weeks every year at most in which to gain experience
- ice is an unpredictable medium
- objective dangers such as ice fall, avalanche, rock fall are greater.
- becasue we have committed to spending our money on flights and hotels and because we won't see the ice again for another year we are morelikely to go out in marginal or dangerous conditions.
- because conditions vary, some areas and routes become over-crowded when the conditions come in.
- the days are shorter and climbers are less likely to wait for another party to finish on a route before they start to climb.
- if you train hard on rock then you will want to push yourself hard on ice even though you may be inexperienced on ice.
and on and on....