bergschrund

A large crevasse called a bergschrund usually occurs at the top of the glacier near the head wall.

Guliya Core #2 and Mountain Glacier Flow « Climate Audit 2006

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.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

Skirting the base of the mountain above us, we came to a gigantic bergschrund, a mile and a half long and 1000 ft. deep.

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

Without the map, we had little certainty of our descent, and though we found our way down the steepest climbing of the trip—through an ice tunnel at a glacial bergschrund a crevasse created where the head of a glacier pulls away from the adjacent rock, down the vertical rock of the Fisher Chimney, and up a grueling finish to reach the Mount Baker ski area—it was dark again before we were off the mountain.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

Without the map, we had little certainty of our descent, and though we found our way down the steepest climbing of the trip—through an ice tunnel at a glacial bergschrund a crevasse created where the head of a glacier pulls away from the adjacent rock, down the vertical rock of the Fisher Chimney, and up a grueling finish to reach the Mount Baker ski area—it was dark again before we were off the mountain.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

As Bowman used the north bergschrund and other landmarks to define their initial position and their route upwards, I studied the man's face, surveying the landmarks of his character.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

Without the map, we had little certainty of our descent, and though we found our way down the steepest climbing of the trip—through an ice tunnel at a glacial bergschrund a crevasse created where the head of a glacier pulls away from the adjacent rock, down the vertical rock of the Fisher Chimney, and up a grueling finish to reach the Mount Baker ski area—it was dark again before we were off the mountain.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

Without the map, we had little certainty of our descent, and though we found our way down the steepest climbing of the trip—through an ice tunnel at a glacial bergschrund a crevasse created where the head of a glacier pulls away from the adjacent rock, down the vertical rock of the Fisher Chimney, and up a grueling finish to reach the Mount Baker ski area—it was dark again before we were off the mountain.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

Twenty-four hours later, I was huddled inside a bivouac sack under the lip of the bergschrund on the Thumb's north face.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

The depth of the snow made the going slow and exhausting; by the time I front-pointed up the overhanging wall of the uppermost bergschrund, some three or four hours after leaving camp, I was whipped.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001