Your ideas are not very specific. Details, people, details.

Uberbob hammered a chisel into the ice, tied the rope to it, and tried to climb up. He only got as high as he could reach to hammer it in.

An excerpt from my last conversation with Radium:

devthemagister: They won't stand for this much longer.
ItalicSemicolon: We need more people D=
devthemagister: You're teetering on the edge of supervillainy.
ItalicSemicolon: I have before and it was awesome.