They've been told its extreme height and changeable weather make for a challenging climb, numerous
hanging glaciers fall from its huge mass and the surrounding mountains are steeply sloped and incredibly arid.
Serac: from the Swiss French word serac, a crumbly pale cheese; it is a large chunk of ice (sometimes as large as a small office building) that forms when glacial crevasses intersect, or at the edge of very steep or
hanging glaciers.
Banff - well known among winter sports fans as a top ski resort - has some classic mountain scenery: giant
hanging glaciers, sparking emerald lakes and tumbling waterfalls.
There are
hanging glaciers, which occur at higher elevations and seem to "hang" on the mountainsides.
Big Walls,
Hanging Glaciers, and Arctic Dreams Backpack, Baffin Island, Canada.
The smallest glaciers are
hanging glaciers, and rest on the sides of steep mountain slopes.