bergshrund

English

Alternative forms

• bergschrund

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bergschrund.

Noun

bergshrund (plural bergshrunds)

1. (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.

   • 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 135:

     By this time the cloud had rolled in once more and we stopped on the lip of a bergschrund and around 6730 m.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• rimaye

Translations

a large crack in a glacier

• Dutch: gletsjerspleet (nl) f
• French: rimaye (fr) f
• Hungarian: gleccserrés
• Russian: бергшрунд (bergšrund)

See also

• Bergschrund on Wikipedia.Wikipedia