Serac, the Glossary
A serac (from Swiss French sérac) is a block or column of glacial ice, often formed by intersecting crevasses on a glacier.[1]
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37 relations: Alps, Bossons Glacier, Bottleneck (K2), Catalunyan Saddle, Cordillera Darwin, Crevasse, Dent d'Hérens, Dhaulagiri, Firn, Glacier, Guinness World Records, Ice, Ice calving, Icefall, K2, Kangchenjunga, Khumbu Icefall, Lenin Peak, Lenin Peak disaster, Livingston Island, Lyskamm, Marmolada Glacier, Mount Everest, Mount Rainier, Mountaineering, Penitente (snow formation), Piz Roseg, Russell Glacier (Greenland), South Col, Swiss French, Tangra Mountains, Tierra del Fuego, United States, Winthrop Glacier, 2008 K2 disaster, 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, 2022 Marmolada serac collapse.
Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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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.
Bottleneck (K2)
The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur (also known 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.
Catalunyan Saddle
Catalunyan Saddle (Katalunska Sedlovina \ka-ta-'lun-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a saddle of 1260 m height in the Friesland Ridge of the Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
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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 that forms in a glacier or ice sheet. Serac and crevasse are Glaciology.
Dent d'Hérens
The Dent d'Hérens (4,173 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps, lying on the border between Italy and Switzerland.
Dhaulagiri
Dhaulagiri, located in Nepal, is the seventh highest mountain in the world at above sea level, and the highest mountain within the borders of a single country.
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. Serac and firn are Glaciology.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. Serac and glacier are Glaciology.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Ice
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. Serac and ice are Glaciology.
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Ice calving
Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. Serac and ice calving are Glaciology.
Icefall
An icefall is a portion of certain glaciers characterized by relatively rapid flow and chaotic crevassed surface, caused in part by gravity.
K2
K2, at above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at.
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Kangchenjunga
Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā and Khangchendzonga, is the third-highest mountain in the world.
Khumbu Icefall
The Khumbu Icefall is located at the head of the Khumbu Glacier and the foot of the Western Cwm.
Lenin Peak
Lenin Peak or Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Peak (Lenin Choqusu, لەنىن چوقۇسۇ; Pik Lenina; qulla‘i Lenin/qullaji Lenin, renamed қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино (qulla‘i Abûalî ibni Sino) in July 2006 (Tajik); for Russian text.), rises to in Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border, and is the second-highest point of both countries.
Lenin Peak disaster
The Lenin Peak disaster occurred on 13 July 1990 when 43 climbers were killed during an avalanche on the 7,134-meter-high mountain peak in northeast Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (then part of the USSR).
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Livingston Island
Livingston Island (Russian name Smolensk) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Lyskamm
Lyskamm (Liskamm, formerly Lyskamm, literally "crest 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.
Marmolada Glacier
The Marmolada Glacier (Ghiacciaio della Marmolada) is located on the mountain Marmolada in the province of Belluno, Italy.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier, also known as Tahoma, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest in the United States.
Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
Penitente (snow formation)
Penitentes under the night sky of the Atacama Desert disp. Serac and Penitente (snow formation) are Glaciology.
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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.
Russell Glacier (Greenland)
Russell Glacier (Russells Gletscher) is a glacier in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland.
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South Col
The South Col is a col between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world, respectively.
Swiss French
Swiss French (français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy.
Tangra Mountains
Tangra Mountains (in Bulgarian Тангра планина, 'Tangra planina' \'tan-gra pla-ni-'na\) form the principal mountain range of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) 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 or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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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2022 Marmolada serac collapse
On 3 July 2022, a serac collapsed on the mountain of Marmolada, in the Dolomites at the regional border between Trentino and Veneto, Italy.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serac
Also known as Seracs.