Khumbu Icefall
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The Khumbu Icefall is located at the head of the Khumbu Glacier and the foot of the Western Cwm. It lies at an elevation of 5,486 metres on the Nepalese slopes of Mount Everest, not far above Base Cam
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Pemba Dorjie crossing a crevasse on the Khumbu Icefall
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Everest kalapatthar crop
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An icefall is a portion of certain glaciers characterized by relatively rapid flow and chaotic crevassed surface, caused in part by gravity. The term icefall is formed by analogy with the word waterfa
The 730 m (2,400 ft) icefall (center) in the Roosevelt Glacier, Mount Baker, Washington, U.S.
An icefall feeding into the Lambert Glacier, Antarctica.
A small icefall on east lobe of the new Crater Glacier on Mount St. Helens.