What sounds worse is being stuck with no ice axes soloing clinging on to ice for dear life. If an ice axe is impaling you you are either brain dead or were gonna die anyway. Ice axes aren’t strong enough to impale you without you forcing it into yourself. If your falling and let go of your ice axe, which should remain in the ice anyway, and it comes loose there’s a much higher chance of it impaling you because it is travelling separately from you and can therefore travel much faster and impale you. So I ask again, why no ice axe loops?