The sculpting of a steep, pyramidal mountain peak as three or more glacially carved cirques, eroding headward from different sides of the same mountain, meet and truncate the ridges between them into sharp, narrow aretes converging on a single sharpened summit. The process, continuing as long as active glacial erosion attacks the surrounding cirque walls, has produced some of the most recognizable peaks in glaciated mountain ranges, most famously the Matterhorn in the Alps.
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