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- abbreviate "bergschrund" to "schrund". Bergschrunds extend to the bedrock and can have a depth of well over 100 metres (330 ft). A bergschrund is distinct...
- but the proportion of the landform would remain roughly the same. A bergschrund forms when the movement of the glacier separates the moving ice from...
- role of a drunken man resisting alien abduction in the music video for "Bergschrund" by DJ Shadow and Nils Frahm. Sunderland pla**** the chemist, Joseph Pritchard...
- horizontally. The speed of ice flow and the precipitous elevation drop create a bergschrund (ice berg shoulder), characterized at the top by m****ive transverse blocks...
- Wengernalp was nine hours. The party turned back on the first day at a bergschrund, returning on the following day with a ladder 25 ft (7.6 m) in length...
- glacier. In French, the word rimaye covers both notions of randkluft and bergschrund. It is formed by the melting of ice against warmer rock and may be very...
- descent. He came to a full stop just 76 m (250 ft) from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crev****e where the flow ice shears away from stable ice...
- Oberhollenzer on 25 August 1899, an ice axe broke and the rope team fell into a bergschrund. Purtsc****er was injured and he was transferred to a hospital in Geneva...
- its final part does the slope increase to 45°. There is a formidable bergschrund to cross at about 5,500 m (18,000 ft). On the final stages, there are...
- multiple climbers into a rope team,: 340  and the use of friction knots. Bergschrund – Crev****e between moving glacier ice and the stagnant ice or firn above...