bergshrund
nounEtymology Borrowed from German Bergschrund.
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences A large crack or crevasse in a glacier where the glacier is pulling away from the mountain.
- The snow was extremely hard and there was a well defined path all the way up to the bergshrund.
- By this time the cloud had rolled in once more and we stopped on the lip of a bergschrund and around 6730 m.1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 135:
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- None of the other climbers says a word, and one by one we climb over a field of shaggy rocks and cross a ladder over the bergschrund.2022, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, “Chomolungma”, in In the Shadow of the Mountain, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 1:
- Synonyms
- rimaye