| For all we knew it could well have carried on getting steeper, ending at an icefall or in a crevasse field. |
| 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. |
| But Kato was undeterred even though the French expedition declared the icefall destroyed and unusable. |
| The group took a thrilling helicopter ride over the glacier, which descends some 2,280 feet, terminating in a spectacular icefall that feeds the river. |
| From the northeast, toward China, the icefall from Teram Shehr cuts a broad swath across the east side of the Siachen. |
| One swing and one screw at a time we slowly made our way up the bottom icefall. |
