Arête

The Garden Wall

An arête is a very sharp steep-sided ridge formed when glaciers on the adjacent sides of a ridge grind away at it until it is sharpened down to an almost knife like edge.

A great example of a large arête is the Garden Wall in Glacier National Park, Montana.

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