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icefall

[ UK /ˈa‍ɪsfɔːl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall

How To Use icefall In A Sentence

  • The icefall created waves as tall as 11.5 feet, which swept up and down the lake for 30 minutes. Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps more; shears ice from glacier
  • Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
  • As we negotiated our way through icefalls and crevasse fields, I experienced feelings of awe and wonder instead of terror and dread.
  • But Kato was undeterred even though the French expedition declared the icefall destroyed and unusable.
  • While we were descending the icefall, there were two very large collapses of seracs (luckily not near us), and many places in the icefall which have looked the same all season but were not recognizable upon descent.
  • Dozens of icefalls (ice avalanches) now occur per day all around us.
  • There was no sign of any other caravan, or of an icefall which would have blocked the road. KARA KUSH
  • Check out that smooth sunrise turning all the pointy peaks and deadly icefalls a soft, deceiving pink.
  • This is usually attributed to objective dangers - unpredictable acts of God, such as avalanches, icefalls, rockfall, and horrid weather.
  • Above Muir, you'll wend your way past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
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