bergschrund
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bergschrund
1835–45; < German ( Berg mountain + Schrunde crevice)
Example Sentences
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In the end, I felt confident the extra flying paid off as I shot each rider racing their slough down an impossibly steep face before ollieing the bergschrund at the bottom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another theory is that he lost an edge and plummeted into the kilometers-long bergschrund at the base of the face.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 thrashed.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
From the bergschrund at 23,000 feet that marked its upper end, this great river of ice flowed two and a half miles down a relatively gentle valley called the Western Cwm.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
As I crouched inside my bivouac sack under the lip of the bergschrund, spindrift avalanches hissed down from the wall above and washed over me like surf, slowly burying my ledge.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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