Possible Clues:

• Sick characters welcome heroic blockbusters sold to those with a mountain to climb
• They may produce chips off the old block?
• Water cooler tap in spring switched for those with a mountain to climb
• In other words, absorbing cold cream's helpful gear for mountaineers
• Ground breaking instrument found in frozen waters useful to barman
• Roofless prisons allowing entry for huge rock-cutting tools
• The best in cold desserts - break open 'the hard stuff' with them
• Terribly sick carrying large-scale mountaineering gear
• They may help mountaineers with choices of water
• Cold blockbusters?