serac in a sentence

1. You can often recognize a serac, if you know what to look for.

2. We had noticed the serac and therefore placed our camp far away from it.

3. Seen from a distance, I believe we can avoid all the seracs on this route.

4. There are so many invisible dangers in the mountains, but this serac was so obvious.

5. A serac is a large chunk of glacial ice which can be as big as a house in some cases.

6. But even if the serac had not collapsed, we would have noticed the bad conditions on the mountain the next day.

7. Even touching a serac can be dangerous, as enough pressure at the wrong point can cause the serac to crumble apart or fall.

8. The Ogre is simply an incredibly complex mountain with many objective dangers, arising from the seracs, which are practically on all sides.

9. If a serac collapses while people are navigating a glacier or mountain, it can cause serious damage or even death, depending on the size of the serac and the position of the climbers.

10. In the case of a very large serac, the results can be catastrophic; in 2008, for example, a falling serac severed a climbing line on K2, one of the highest mountains in the world, leading to the deaths of 11 climbers.

11. Especially the so-called “Bottleneck”, a narrow couloir at about 8,000 meters under a hanging glacier, made him afraid, Herbert tells me: “You’re standing under this serac and see chunks of ice as big as cars in front of you.

12. the presence of numerous unstable blocks of ice(called seracs) in and above the khumbu icefall encourages climbers to try to pass through as quickly as possible, usually in the very early morning before temperatures rise and loosen the ice.