bergshrund
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Bergschrund.
Noun[edit]
bergshrund (plural bergshrunds)
- (geology) A 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.
- 2022, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, “Chomolungma”, in In the Shadow of the Mountain, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 1:
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
a large crack in a glacier
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See also[edit]
- Bergschrund on Wikipedia.Wikipedia