- A
bergschrund (from the
German for
mountain cleft;
sometimes abbreviated in
English to "schrund") is a crev****e that
forms where moving glacier ice separates...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
headwall steepening and
extension headward is the crev****es
known as
bergschrund that
occur between the
moving ice and the headwall.
Plucking and shattering...
-
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...
- can
sometimes separate from the
stagnant ice above,
forming a
bergschrund.
Bergschrunds resemble crev****es but are
singular features at a glacier's margins...
