bergschrund

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Voorbeelden van bergschrund

  • Engel notes that the party were all nearly obliterated by rockfall while they were crossing the bergschrund.

  • The northeast face is the shortest of the peak's faces but has many bergschrunds.

  • Moving glacier ice can sometimes separate from stagnant ice above, forming a bergschrund.

  • However, the randkluft is sometimes called a bergschrund.

  • They cross the bergschrund and climb a few feet of easy rock.

  • Towards the summit was a bergschrund, in most places 30ft m wide, traversing the width of the glacier, and impassable without a long ladder.

  • It involves crossing a number of crevasses in the glacier and may be impassible due to wall-to-wall bergschrund at the upper end.

  • A bergschrund forms when the movement of the glacier separates the moving ice from the stationary ice forming a crevasse.

  • In winter, a bergschrund is often filled by snow from avalanches from the mountain above it.

  • In a longitudinal glacier, the bergschrund is at the top end of the glacier at a right angle to the flow of the glacier.

  • It is often a serious obstacle for mountaineers, who sometimes abbreviate bergschrund to schrund.

  • In a corrie or cirque, the bergschrund is positioned at the rear, parallel to the back wall of the corrie.

  • It is widely held that a common cause for headwall steepening and extension headward is the crevasses known as bergschrund that occur between the moving ice and the headwall.

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