bergschrund

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It breaks itself loose from the thinner snows about it, too shallow to share its motion, and from the rock rim which surrounds it, forming a deep fissure called the bergschrund, sometimes a score and more feet wide SIZE OF GLACIERS.

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  1. A crevice between a glacier and the rocky wall of its valley. The bergschrund is the scene of thawing under the sun's rays during the day and of freezing at night, and along it frost is very destructive, furnishing the loose rocks for moraines. Jour. of Geol., Nov.–Dec., 1902, p. 846.

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  • He cannoned into the baggage and ricochetted off; he cannoned into Big Klaus; his mouth and eyes were choked with snow; some rib of rock or ice caught his thigh and hurt him Once, climbing at Courmayeur alone, he had slipped on a snowfield and been whirled to what he believed to be his end in a bergschrund (which happened to be nearly full of snow into which he had dropped comfortably). —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • He learned where to find snow in August, and how to descend stairs with skis strapped to his back, and he learned, the hard way, the meaning of the word "bergschrund."
  • This was the day Craig Moore learned the definition of the word bergschrund.
  • There's only one bergschrund you need to be wary of, and you can completely avoid it.
  • He therefore crossed the bergschrund, or crevasse between the glacier and the cliffs, on a snow-bridge, faced the mountain-side once more, and, toiling upwards, reached the summit of the pass a little before sunset. —  Rivers of Ice
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  1. German, < berg, mountain, + schrund, a gap, crevice.
 

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