Engel notes that the party were all nearly obliterated by rockfall while they were crossing thebergschrund.
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The northeast face is the shortest of the peak's faces but has many bergschrunds.
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Moving glacier ice can sometimes separate from stagnant ice above, forming abergschrund.
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However, the randkluft is sometimes called abergschrund.
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They cross thebergschrundand climb a few feet of easy rock.
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Towards the summit was abergschrund, in most places 30ft m wide, traversing the width of the glacier, and impassable without a long ladder.
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It involves crossing a number of crevasses in the glacier and may be impassible due to wall-to-wallbergschrundat the upper end.
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Abergschrundforms when the movement of the glacier separates the moving ice from the stationary ice forming a crevasse.
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In winter, abergschrundis often filled by snow from avalanches from the mountain above it.
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In a longitudinal glacier, thebergschrundis at the top end of the glacier at a right angle to the flow of the glacier.
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It is often a serious obstacle for mountaineers, who sometimes abbreviatebergschrundto schrund.
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In a corrie or cirque, thebergschrundis positioned at the rear, parallel to the back wall of the corrie.
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It is widely held that a common cause for headwall steepening and extension headward is the crevasses known asbergschrundthat occur between the moving ice and the headwall.
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