For in winter the crevasse of the bergschrund which surrounds the neve field is filled with snow and the neve is frozen fast to the rocky sides of the valley.
Bergschrund of a Glacier in Colorado] This is but a small fraction of the thickness to which snow would be piled on the Alps were it not constantly being drained away.
In early summer the neve tears itself free, dislodging and removing any loosened blocks, and the open fissure of the bergschrund allows frost and other agencies of weathering to attack the unprotected rock.
This involved a long detour; but the bergschrund was too wide to be jumped, and far too steep to be scaled, while the insecurity of the snow-bridges over it was apparent.
On reaching a bergschrund we found above its upper lip hard ice, which continued no doubt to the ridge.
We passed the bergschrund soon after nine in the morning, and during the next eleven hours halted only five-and-forty minutes.
There was but one place where the bergschrund was narrow enough to admit of crossing, and there a cliff of ice had to be climbed, and then a path to be cut up a steep slope of snow, before the arete could be reached.
An example of a couloir with a doublebergschrund is given on p.
A bergschrund is frequently, although not always, a big crevasse.
It was just eleven as we crossed a small bergschrund and began the ascent.
As we crept cautiously up this treacherous staircase, I could not help reflecting on the lively bounds with which the stones and fragments of ice had gone spinning from our last halting place down to the yawning bergschrund below.
We looked for some time in vain, for a mighty bergschrund effectually prevented approach, and, like a fortress' moat, protected the wall from assault.
We arrived upon the plateau of the Glacier de l'Encula, behind this ridge, from the direction of D, and then made a nearly straight track to the left hand of the bergschrund at A.
We passed the bergschrund soon after nine in the morning, and during the next eleven hours halted only five and forty minutes.
A schrund is simply a big crevasse: a bergschrund is frequently, but not always, a big crevasse.
We crossed the bergschrund of the Dent Blanche, I suppose, at a height of about twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea.
In any season it is always difficult to cross that bergschrund on to the steep ice-slope beyond.
Illustration: Snow cornice above the bergschrund at head of Klickitat glacier, with another part of the same crevasse.
A bergschrund is a crevasse of which the lower side lies much below its upper side.
A mountain ascent without a bergschrund is as tame as a steeplechase without a water jump, but candour compels the admission that no bergschrund was visible.
Instead of the orthodox transverse bergschrund it possesses a longitudinal crack running up its whole length, a peculiarity that vexed us hugely.
It meant that in two days our descent had been considerable, since the great bergschrund farther south was well over three hundred feet in depth and no water had appeared in its depths.
Bergschrund has been "freely rendered" in the description of the great cleft between the lower part of the Denman Glacier and the Shackleton Shelf-Ice (Queen Mary Land).
This brings up the second and third of our main considerations, that the bergschrund does not always or even in many cases reach the foot of the cirque wall, and that cirques exist in many cases where bergschrunds are totally absent.
In the second place, the assumption is untenable that the bergschrund in all cases reaches to or anywhere near the foot of the cirque wall.
As a result of the concentrated frost action at the base of the bergschrund a rapid deepening and steepening takes place at a.
The chief attraction of the bergschrund hypothesis lies in the concentration of action at the foot of the cirque wall.
If cirque formation can be shown to take place without concentrated frost action at the foot of the bergschrund, then is the bergschrund not a secondary rather than a primary factor?
A third condition outside the hypothesis and contradictory to it is the absence of a bergschrund in snowfields at many valleys heads where cirques are well developed!
It is safe to say that if by magic a bergschrund could be opened on the instant, it would be closed almost immediately by the impetus supplied by the falling snow masses.
He believes that it marks the base of the bergschrund at a late stage in the excavation of the cirque basin.
If a bergschrund forms, its action may take place at the foot of the cirque wall or high up on the wall, and yet sapping at the foot of the wall continue.
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