| For us a serac is a big block or pinnacle of ice sticking up in the middle of the feature of a glacier called an icefall. |
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| When a serac unexpectedly falls and instantly kills a climber, we are not fascinated, only touched by grief. |
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| The main rotor struck a serac about 100 metres away from the serac on which the actor was standing. |
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| There's a passage to the right, but it's under a huge serac that teeters at the end of a glacier, waiting for the next slight shift of ice to send it tumbling. |
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| For the next four days, they'll hammer their toes into the face, scaling 55-to 60-degree ice before reaching a large serac at approximately 22,000 feet. |
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| It was flying below the serac tops, in the crevasses, at a high speed. |
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| Suddenly a 400-metre length of serac, a huge overhanging ledge of ice, broke loose and fell to the bottom of the North Face. |
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| At about 1715 Pacific daylight time, the helicopter was flying at a high speed in a crevasse among seracs on the glacier when its main rotor struck a serac. |
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| The mark on the serac, where the main rotor first made contact, was consistent with what would be expected by an advancing main rotor blade, in level flight, at a constant speed or accelerating. |
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| People from the other tables had gone to bed: in the sudden silence we distinctly heard the deep roar of a serac, like the bones of a giant trying in vain to turn over in his bed of rock. |
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| The last accident on a similar scale occurred in 2008, when eight mountaineers were swept away by a slide caused by a falling serac, a towering, unstable glacial ice formation. |
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| One of them was Rolf Bae, killed when he was stuck by a falling serac. |
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| The disabled helicopter flew over a serac between the two marks. |
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| The bottles also show a better resistance to vertical compression than those produced using flat thermoforming, Serac says. |
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