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
2008 K2 disaster
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The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. The series of
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…In 1990, an earthquake caused a block of serac to fall off Lenin Peak, triggering an avalanche which hit a camp, killing 43 people. In the August 2008 K2 disaster, the collapse of large seracs was responsible for at least 8 of the 11 mountaineers' deaths. The April 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche responsible for…
K2 in Summer
High on K2: Seracs above the Bottleneck