Ice Man takes its theme from the plight of Australian student James Scott, who was lost in the Himalayan mountains for 43 days before being rescued. Each section is inspired by a different fragment of text taken from a newspaper article in which Scott described his ordeal. The text reflect a psychological journey, expressed in Greenbaum's piano work with passages that range between dense activity and spaciousness. Sustain pedalling is employed to create an often bi-tonal wash of sound.