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->''"Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice\\
Appears under your feet.\\
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind\\
With your fear flowing out behind you\\
As you claw the thin ice."''
-->-- '''Music/PinkFloyd''', "[[Music/TheWall The Thin Ice]]"

Any movie that takes place in an icebound wasteland like the polar regions should include a scene where someone unexpectedly falls down a crevasse obscured by snow. Another version is for the crevasse to be visible, but crossed by a snow bridge which could [[RopeBridge collapse under their weight at any time]]. Compare OminousCrack and DangerThinIce.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTibet Tintin in Tibet]]'', Tintin falls into a crevasse during a blinding snowstorm. He climbs his way out two hours later, after having found in the ice cave below a stone on which Chang (the friend he's searching Tibet for) had [[KilroyWasHere carved his name]].
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1''. The herd is walking on an ice field when a lava flow opens up beneath them, leaving only a thin bridge getting thinner by the minute.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheThing2011'' opens with the Norwegians in a snowcat homing in on a DistressSignal. They discover where it's coming from when the ground opens beneath them and they become wedged in a crevasse with their headlights shining down on a FlyingSaucer.
* ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'':
** In the first minutes, a science station has been set up on the Antarctic ice shelf. A crack in the snow appears. Moments later, a crevasse divides the camp in two. Naturally it's PlayedForDrama.
** Subverted later in the movie when a sled is sucked into a hole that appears in the snow. Moments later it's revealed that it's actually not a crevasse but a hole in the glass roof of a [[TheMall shopping mall]] buried in the snow.
* The hero of ''Film/PhotographingFairies'' is plagued by guilt over not having saved his wife from falling to her death down a crevasse. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, when he is about to die himself, a fairy sends him back in time so he can [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong change the past by saving her]].]]
* The climax of the 1956 film ''Film/TheMountain'' involves a crevasse high in the Alps, with only two ice bridges crossing it. One of them is safe to cross, and the other only ''looks'' safe.
* The documentary film ''Film/TouchingTheVoid'' is a real life story of how someone survived this.
* In the film ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'', this happens when Lyra is crossing a bridge of ice and narrowly makes it to the other side as it collapses.
* ''Film/TheRedTent1969''. The survivors of an airship crash in the Arctic barely escape drowning when the ice floe breaks apart beneath the eponymous tent.
* ''Film/Everest2015'' has a scene where the party is crossing a large break in the ice on a ladder when an avalanche nearly knocks one of them off.
* ''Film/Iceman1984''. A sudden crevasse appears between Shephard and [[ContemporaryCaveman Charlie]], splitting them up to enable the climatic scene.
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[[folder:Literature]]
%% * ''Literature/MaximumRide'': Happens in the fourth book of the series.
* In the last book of ''[[Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings The Tawny Man]]'', [[spoiler: Fitz and the Fool]] fall down one while crossing a glacier. [[spoiler: Since Fitz is still under the influence of a drug that negates his telepathic Skill, they cannot call for help from the rest of their party and are forced to find their way through the ice caves on their own, eventually ending up in the [[BigBad White Woman's]] hideout.]]
* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' novel ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsNightWhispers Night Whispers]]'', [[spoiler: Flametail]] falls into one and dies near the ending.
* ''Literature/{{Declare}}''. Andrew Hale falls into one while climbing Mount Ararat, but is saved because he's roped to the ''spetsnaz'' team climbing with him. He nearly lets himself fall though because there's an EldritchAbomination staring back at him from the abyss, compelling him to release his carabiner...
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DueSouth'': Happens in the final episode. Ray Kowalski is trapped in a crevasse in the Canadian tundra.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' plays the trope pretty straight when Parker and Eliot climb a mountain in "The Long Way Down Job." Their GPS shows they're right on top of the transponder they're looking for but they can't see it ... there's a cracking sound ... "CREVASSE!!"
* ''Series/ShadowAndBone''. In "The Heart is an Arrow", [[TheWitchHunter Matthias Helvar]] and [[HotWitch Nina Zenik]] seem on the point of resolving their BelligerentSexualTension [[MomentKiller when a crevasse opens beneath Nina's feet]]. Matthias is clearly considering letting her fall to her death, but he pulls her to safety instead, then [[YouMustBeCold wraps his furs around her]].
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[[folder:Music]]
* In addition to the Music/PinkFloyd song mentioned above, British Neo Progressive band Arena also used a crack in the ice as a metaphor for... something or other... in their 1998 ConceptAlbum ''The Visitor''.
-->''I defy you to stand\\
On the crack in the ice\\
With the power in your hands\\
On the crack in the ice''
* The Music/{{Metallica}} song "Trapped Under Ice", which involves someone falling through a crack in an ice sheet and drowning/freezing to death.
* As does Music/KateBush's song "Under Ice", which goes from a picturesque story about skating to pure NightmareFuel in under two minutes.
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[[folder:Poetry]]
* British comic poet Harry Graham's "Patience":
-->''When ski-ing in the Engadine\\
My hat blew off down a ravine\\
My son, who went to fetch it back,\\
Slipped through an icy glacier's crack\\
And then got permanently stuck.\\
It really was infernal luck;\\
My hat was practically new --\\
I loved my little Henry too --\\
And I may have to wait for years\\
'Til either of them reappears.''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* This is the fate of [[spoiler:Luke and possibly Bonnie, if you choose to cover Luke instead of trying to help him]] in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo'', Episode 5. [[spoiler:Thanks to an injured leg, Luke falls through the ice and can't recover. Clementine can find him attempting to claw his way out from under the ice, but no matter what, she can't save him.]]
* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'': The Glacial Strata have a few pre-existing cracks that will form an actual crevasse if you step on them, leading to an annoying and sometimes painful fall. Climbing out is less of a problem since you have a pickaxe and [[FastTunneling Dwarven digging prowess]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Happens in [[http://wallyandosborne.com/2005/07/05/thin-ice-skating this]] ''Webcomic/WallyAndOsborne'' strip.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', [[spoiler: Digger and Murai]] fall into a crevasse in a snowfield. [[spoiler: Digger is OK, but Murai breaks her arm, and their friends are barely able to pull them to safety.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatANightmareCharlieBrown'' climaxes with Snoopy's sled-dog team plunging through one of these into a frozen lake. (Fortunately, it's AllJustADream.)
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Falling into and miraculously escaping from a crevasse was one of the many trials that climber Joe Simpson had to go through during his descent from Siula Grande in the Andes. It should be mentioned that he had a broken leg at the time and was suffering from hypothermia. The whole story is recounted in the book and film ''TouchingTheVoid''.
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