A pickaxe-shaped snow tool used by mountaineers (and also the Soviet assassin who killed Leon Trotsky). It has various regional names ~ "Eispickel" (German), "Piolet" (French) and "ピッケル (pickel)" (Japanese).

On pixiv, war hammers and pickaxes are often incorrectly tagged as ピッケル.

See also

• Wikipedia article
• Pixiv tag search

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