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Serac

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sé·rac also se·rac  (s-rk, s-)
n.
A large pointed mass of ice in a glacier isolated by intersecting crevasses.

[French, cottage cheese, sérac, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *serceum, whey, from Latin serum.]


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Regis Lavergne, a rescue worker, told French television there was "no more hope" of finding the missing mountaineers alive, adding that they were probably on the lower reaches of the glacier "underneath the lumps of serac [pillar of ice]".
As the fastest climbers descended in darkness across The Bottleneck, about 1,148ft below the summit, a huge serac, or column of ice, fell.
A chunk of ice broke off from a serac - a pillar of ice - and tore away fixed lines from a steep gully known as the Bottleneck.
 
 
 
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