Crossword-Solution: RACS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Abruptly he found himself outside, stung by the cold, dazzled by the fairy-like reflections of the moon upon that white expanse, those motionless congealed cascades, where the shadow of the peaks, the _aiguilles_, the _séracs_, were sharply defined in the densest black.

Hush...” said Inebnit, pointing with his ice-axe to the threatening line of gigantic _séracs_ on their tottering foundations which the slightest jar might send thundering down the steep.

The guides, seeing that they could not silence their crazy singer, made a great détour to get away from the _séracs_, and presently were stopped by an enormous crevasse, the glaucous green sides of which were lighted, far down their depths, by the first furtive rays of the dawn.

Very calm, confident through experience that there was not the slightest danger, Tartarin walked along the verge of the crevasses with their smooth, iridescent sides stretching downward indefinitely, and made his way among the _séracs_, solely intent on keeping up with the Swedish student, an intrepid walker, whose long gaiters with their silver buckles marched, thin and lank, beside his alpenstock, which looked like a third leg.

All cross in safety except Sir Ernest, who makes imprudent remark which causes a line of overhanging_ séracs _to collapse upon him and sweep him down the glacier.