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ice collapse - ice fall from an ice-break, from a fault wall on a glacier, or resulting from the destruction of a serac in an icefall. They can practically occur at any time of the day, at any time of the year.

The most catastrophic are landslides from ice breaks. Quite often, ice blocks, hitting the rocks, break and, in the process of further falling, are crushed down to snow. Ice collapses also provoke avalanches from slopes under ice breaks.

The possibility of an ice collapse can be judged by ice fragments on the glacier. Fragments of a blue color or shade indicate a recent collapse.

Ice landslides are almost equally likely at any time of the day.

The movement of people in places where an ice collapse is possible is very dangerous, and setting up a bivouac is not at all permissible.

During the summer period, the number of ice collapses is most significant. Ice collapses are most often formed not due to a large accumulation of ice, but as a result of the constant movement of the ice mass, the so-called icefall, which is a pile of huge pillars, bizarre "sculptures" called seracs.

Master of Sports of the USSR in mountaineering Yu. Moskaltsov (a member of the expedition of V. M. Abalakov) said that their group was resting on one of such huge seraks on the Mizhirchi glacier and none of the most experienced mountain experts felt danger. As soon as the group left the huge boulder, the ice colossus split in two.

The passage of an icefall is always considered objectively dangerous and highly undesirable.

Hanging glaciers on the slopes also pose a very serious danger, and not only when climbing over them along the slope, but also when moving at its foot.

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