bergshrund

plural bergshrunds · alternative bergschrund

1. geographyA 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.

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   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

   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