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A serac (originally from Swiss French sérac) is a block or column of glacial ice, often formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier. [1]

25 relations: Alps, Bossons Glacier, Bottleneck (K2), Cordillera Darwin, Crevasse, Dent d'Hérens, Firn, Glacier, Ice, Icefall, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lyskamm, Mount Everest, Mount Rainier, Mountaineering, Penitente (snow formation), Piz Roseg, Russell Glacier (Greenland), Swiss French, Tierra del Fuego, United States, Winthrop Glacier, 2008 K2 disaster, 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche.

Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Bossons Glacier

The Bossons Glacier is one of the larger glaciers of the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps, found in the Chamonix valley of Haute-Savoie département, south-eastern France.

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Bottleneck (K2)

The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur, known also as Abruzzi Spur— the most used route to the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, in the Karakoram, on the border of Pakistan and China.

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Cordillera Darwin

The Cordillera Darwin is an extensive mountain range mantled by an ice field that is located in Chile.

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Crevasse

A crevasse is a deep crack, or fracture, found in an ice sheet or glacier, as opposed to a crevice that forms in rock.

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Dent d'Hérens

The Dent d'Hérens (4,174 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, lying on the border between Italy and Switzerland.

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Firn

Firn (from Swiss German firn "last year's", cognate with before) is partially compacted névé, a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Ice

Ice is water frozen into a solid state.

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Icefall

An icefall is a portion of certain glaciers characterized by rapid flow and a chaotic crevassed surface.

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K2

K2 (کے ٹو), also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori (Balti and چھوغوری),, at above sea level, is the second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest, at.

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Kangchenjunga

Kangchenjunga (कञ्चनजङ्घा; कंचनजंघा; ཁང་ཅེན་ཛོཾག་), also spelled Kanchenjunga, is the third highest mountain in the world, and lies partly in Nepal and partly in Sikkim, India.

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Lyskamm

Lyskamm (Liskamm, formerly Lyskamm, literally "comb of the Lys"), also known as Silberbast (literally "silver bast"), is a mountain in the Pennine Alps lying on the border between Switzerland and Italy.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier (pronounced) is the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, and the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

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Penitente (snow formation)

Penitentes, or nieves penitentes (Spanish for "penitent-shaped snows"), are snow formations found at high altitudes.

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Piz Roseg

Piz Roseg (pronounced as peetse rawzech) is a mountain of the Bernina Range, overlooking the Val Roseg in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Russell Glacier (Greenland)

Russell Glacier (Russells Gletscher) is a glacier in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland.

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Swiss French

Swiss French (français de Suisse) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy.

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Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Winthrop Glacier

The Winthrop Glacier is a large glacier on the northeastern side of Mount Rainier in Washington.

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2008 K2 disaster

The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth.

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2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche

On 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen climbing Sherpas in the Khumbu Icefall.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serac

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