Ian Clough
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Ian Clough was a British mountaineer who was killed on the 1970 British Annapurna expedition led by Sir Chris Bonington to climb the south face of the Himalayan massif. He was later described by Bonin
Aiguille du Dru in 2006
Grandes Jorasses
Serac
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A serac is a block or column of glacial ice, often formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier. Commonly house-sized or larger, they are dangerous to mountaineers and alpinists, since they may toppl
Ian Clough
…Annapurna led by Chris Bonington, but after the successful ascent of the south face by Dougal Haston and Don Whillans, Clough was killed by a falling sérac (ice-pillar) just below Camp 2 as he was descending the mountain's lower slopes. Bonington dedicated his book Annapurna South Face (1971) with the words…
Fox Glacier, New Zealand
Serac, Russell Glacier in Greenland
Seracs in firn at 3,050 metres (10,000 feet) on the Winthrop Glacier of Mount Rainier in Washington, USA
Seracs, Bossons Glacier, southeastern France