What are crevasses?

Crevasses are big cracks that form on ice or glaciers, like when something breaks apart but stays connected.

Imagine you have a giant chocolate bar, it's thick and solid. Now, if you keep bending it back and forth, eventually it will crack in the middle. That’s what happens with glaciers: they move slowly over time, and when parts of them stretch or twist too much, crevasses form, like big cracks that go deep into the ice.

Glaciers are like huge rivers of ice, moving very slowly. When they go around a mountain or over a hill, some parts move faster than others. This stretching and twisting can cause the ice to break apart in long, narrow crevasses, just like how your chocolate bar might crack if you bend it too much.

Sometimes, people can walk into these cracks, like stepping into a giant gap in the ground! It’s like walking into a really deep trench made of ice.