History Main / ACrackInTheIce

** 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 [[spoiler: not a crevasse but a hole in the glass roof of a shopping mall buried in the snow!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge''. 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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* 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]].

* ''Film/{{Everest|2015}}'' 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.

* This is the fate of [[spoiler:Luke and possibly Bonnie, if you choose to cover Luke instead of trying to help him]] in Season 2, Episode 5 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''. [[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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* ''Series/{Leverage}'' plays the trope pretty straight when Parker and Eliot climb a mountain in "The Long Way Down Job." "CREVASSE!!"

* Creator/{{Netflix}} original ''The Ice Road'' covers a convoy of truckers transporting the equipment to rescue a group of trapped miners in Canada, taking an extremely dangerous route over a frozen lake to make it before they suffocate. Inevitably this trope happens.

* ''Literature/TheTerror''. After years of thick ice blocking their escape, a scouting party reports open water, which has frozen over by the time they haul the boats there. They then have to haul the heavy sledges and boats across the thinner ice, looking for an open lead, knowing that if they fall through they'll drown as they're stuck in harness. So Captain Crozier orders several mutineers to haul the lead boat. [[spoiler:They survive, but a tent-full of his marines drowns when a crevice opens under their tent at night.]]

* Naturally ''Series/IceRoadTruckers'' puts a lot of emphasis on the danger of this trope. It's noted that when driving big rigs over frozen lakes and rivers, drivers remove their seatbelts to bail more quickly.

* The documentary film ''Touching the Void'' is a real life story of how someone survived this.

* ''Film/TheRedTent'' (1969). The survivors of an airship crash in the Arctic barely escape drowning when the ice floe breaks apart beneath the eponymous tent.