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
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
On 3 July 2022, a serac collapsed on the mountain of Marmolada, in the Dolomites at the regional border between Trentino and Veneto, Italy. Eleven people were killed and eight were wounded. The large-
Serac
…nine climbers from South Korea were killed at Mount Gurja basecamp in Nepal from a gust of wind, driven by falling seracs and snow. On 3 July 2022, a serac collapse on the Marmolada Glacier in Italy killed eleven people and injured eight others. On April 12, 2023 three Sherpas died from a collapse of a serac in the…
Il distacco del seracco della calotta di Punta Rocca in Marmolada
The glacier Ghiacciaio della Marmolada in 2013, Punta Rocca glacier with crack