When a noticeable amount of the snow is cleared, he can see a little better how much ice there is to deal with. A lot. It covers the lower part of the beacon even worse than it does the light. A few solutions roll about in his head, none of them particularly ideal--chipping away at it would take far too much time. If melted, it would freeze back into place before they could pull the thing free. And simply forcing the beacon out would likely damage it irreparably. The ice needs broken in some way, carefully but quickly.

Ice cracks easily if struck the right way. Or vibrated at the right frequency. But he won't be able to determine that by pitch--he'll have to do it by feel.

All this takes but a heartbeat after he sees the condition of the beacon. He places his hands on it near the centre. This is not something he often uses Palindrome for, but it's similar enough to the resonance experiments he used to run that he can just... change the... frequency....

At least he remembers to shout to Furiosa to stand back before there's a subsonic hum that rattles in the teeth and pulls at the brain, a bright glow from the gauntlets, and then the crunching sound of ice cracking.

He has to pause to breathe before he can start pulling the cracked ice from the beacon.