icefall

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  1. noun The part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall that flows down a steep slope.
  2. noun An avalanche of ice.

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  • We had lunch and then hiked over to the icefall where Samuli and Max set up a climbing course.
  • As I walked through the icefall and glacier morraine, I kept looking up at Chogori, still in the clouds and the storm just at C2.
  • I was planning to hike up to the icefall here to get a better view of how deep the crevasses are, but poor visibility made it prohibitive for good picture taking.
  • A two-hour climb on a scree slope will put me almost at the heart of the icefall with more icefall above.
  • And in one stark example of how the mountain has been hit by global warming, climbers have observed the steady break-up of the Khumbu icefall, a treacherous maze of cliffs and crevasses on the southern side of the peak. —  Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
 

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