A11 CTLR DESCRIBED NEAR SEPARATION LOSS WHEN RELIEVED CTLR TURNED SLOW CLIMBING ACFT TOWARD TERRAIN; CORRECTIVE ACTION TAKEN IN TIME.

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I ASSUMED N RADAR POS FROM THE PRECEDING CTLR; WHO HAD ONLY 1 ACFT ON FREQ. THIS WAS ACFT X; A HVY B747-200. THESE FREIGHTERS ARE NOTORIOUSLY SLOW CLIMBERS -- ESPECIALLY DURING THE WARMER DAYS OF SUMMER. ACFT X WAS JUST OUT OF 3500 FT WHEN THE CTLR TURNED HIM HDG 120 DEGS TOWARDS A 5500 FT MVA WHICH IS ONLY 2.5 MI WIDE THEN IT BECOMES AN 8000 FT MVA. MY VERY FIRST XMISSION WAS TO TURN ACFT X L HDG 360 DEGS AND THEN A SERIES OF L TURNS AROUND TO 080 DEGS TO 1) MAKE THE MVA REQUIREMENTS; 2) MEET THE REQUIREMENT WITH ZAN TO EXIT THE ELLAM GATE HDG 080 DEGS. THE CTLR I RELIEVED MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HAD A PLAN TO PREVENT ACFT X FROM IMPACTING THE CHUGACH MOUNTAINS. THOUGH VISIBILITY WAS GOOD AND HE WOULD LIKELY HAVE SAID SOMETHING; THIS WAS AN EMBARRASSING MOVE ON THE CTLR'S PART. IN ADDITION TO TURNING THIS HVY TOWARDS THE RAPIDLY RISING TERRAIN E OF ANC ARPT; THE PRECEDING CTLR DID NOT POINT THIS HVY OUT TO THE UNDERLYING LOW SECTOR WHO WAS WORKING A VFR ACFT Y AT 4100 FT (IN OUR AIRSPACE WITHOUT COORD). AS I TURNED ACFT X FOR HIS CLB; I HAD TO INITIATE A POINTOUT WITH THE N LOW SECTOR TOO.