This crevasse must have been nearly twenty-five yards in width and of great depth.
As they had seen me no more after I had disappeared behind a swelling mound of ice, they conjured up in their imaginations the possibility that I had fallen into some deep crevasse or had hurt myself on the treacherous moraine.
There is something peculiarly attractive, perhaps from the danger, pertaining to a deep crevasse in a glacier.
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.
Soon they plunge into deep wells cut by their whirling waters where some crevasse has begun to open across their path.
Scott found inside crevasse warmer than above, but had no thermometer.
When he was down in the crevasse he wanted to go off exploring, but we dissuaded him.
Lashly says thecrevasse was 50 feet deep and 8 feet across, in form U, showing that the word 'unfathomable' can rarely be applied.
The crevasse for the time being was an inferno, and the time must have been all too terribly long for the wretched creatures.
We have not struck a crevasse all day, which is a good sign.
The small white dog which fell into the crevasse on our home journey died yesterday.
After topping the crevasseridge we got on a better surface and came along fairly well, completing over 7 miles (geo.
Sometimes, if the crevasse is very wide but not deep, he descends to the bottom and goes up on the other side.
We then crossed a slightly sloping plateau of snow, and passed along the side of an immense crevasse which obstructed our way.
The crevasse through which it issues is wild and romantic in the extreme.
I ran anxiously up the side of it to northward, eagerly hoping that I could get around its head, but my worst fears were realized when at a distance of about a mile or less it ran into the crevasse that I had just jumped.
Many a crevasse had to be crossed, but most of them were narrow and easily jumped, while the few wide ones that lay in my way were crossed on sliver bridges or avoided by passing around them.
A bergschrund is a crevasse of which the lower side lies much below its upper side.
On referring to the log-book of Captain Talbot, which lies on my table before me, the abyss or ice-crevasse is stated to have been about two hundred feet in depth.
By torch-light they ventured somewhat farther on, until an awful crevasse interrupted their progress.
The crevasse was four hundred feet wide, and in some places twenty-five feet deep.
More sacks were piled against the wooden wall, and gradually the waters ceased to flow through the break, and the crevasse was closed.
The crevasse was finally closed, by sinking a vessel in the breach, for the suggestion and accomplishment of which, the public was chiefly indebted to Governor Claiborne.
Thompson slipped 60 feet into a crevasse where he was wedged in between the narrowing walls.
This is greatest toward the bottom of the crevasse and so, by this excavating or quarrying process, vertical or very steep walls are developed around a great bowlike basin or cirque.
This land, Cook declared, had a great crevasse in it, making it appear like two islands, the southerly one starting at 84:20 north.
Verhoeff, the meteorologist of the Kite expedition, was accorded such unbrotherly treatment that he left his body in a glacial crevasse in preference to coming home on the same ship with Mr. Peary.
With muffled steps, I left the igloo and paced the dreariness of ice, treading slowly, lest, in the darkness, I slip into some unseen crevasse of the open sea.
A crevasse had suddenly opened through our igloo, directly under the spot whereon I slept; and I, a helpless creature in a sleeping bag, with tumbling snow blocks and ice and snow crashing about and crushing me, with the temperature 48 deg.
This being such, she knew that her time within her own crevasse would not last; and that to be inextricably attached to these selfish and impermanent beings who had fallen in with her would merely be a form of weak clinging.
The most common cause of the intermittence of such a waterfall is the formation of a crevasse higher up, across the watercourse which supplied it, and which now begins another excavation.
She knew Winkey heard her, for he stopped short and peered down into thecrevasse to see who had appealed for help.
Relieved of the burden of the girl's weight, Mr. Eckenrod collapsed on the floor of the crevasse again, moaning with pain.
From thecrevasse I came direct here, thinking you had got back before me.
They would not be likely to make a moment's pause, but clear thecrevasse at a single bound of their sure-footed gallop.
To hide his canoe here, ascend this with pack and rifle, was the next move of this human panther, and here in a sheltering crevasse he lay and watched for his enemy.
And now, after a more careful examination of the crevasse out of which the thin film of smoke rose, Old Cy began a search.
An almost beaten trail led from his lair in the ridge to a crevasse back of the cabins, but to one well versed in wood tracks, it was easy to tell how old these tracks were.
In fact, that was the next object he expected to see, and he glanced up and down the crevasse for it.
It was while trapping here that he found this by the aid of a fox which, while dragging a trap, became caught and held in a crevasse while attempting to enter it.
One moment more, and then a flaring torch of bark was thrust into the inner cave, a mere crevasse not four feet wide, and stooping, as he now had to, Old Cy entered and knelt while he looked about.
But some shelter, at least to cook and eat in, he must have, and this he found in a distant crevasse of this same ledge, and from this he sneaked along back of it until he could hide and watch the camp below.
Here his pelts were stretched, a slab of slate was lifted from its position in a deep, wide crevasse between two of these ledges, and McGuire crawled into his den.
And so we crawled along the surface of the snow with never a big crevasse to enliven one, and the sun rose up and peered across the vast curves of white and almost blinded us.
We came to that in the arête, for after following it for a few minutes we turned off it to the left and came to the bergschrund, the big crevasse which separates the highest snows or ice from the glacier.
The schrund's lower lip was only six feet lower than the upper lip, and the whole crevasse was barely three feet across, though doubtless deep enough to swallow a thousand parties like ours.
Sometimes he and I sat and wrangled on the edge of a crevasse while I denied that there was anything to admire at all.
But he knew that when he had ascended Mont Blanc by the Brenva route twenty-three years before, he had kept to the right along the rocks to a point where that ice-wall was crevassed, and through that crevasse had found his path.
A guide was standing on the lower edge of a great crevasse with a hand upheld above his head.
It might end in a crevasse and a glacier for all we knew, and we debated whether we should be prudent or chance it.
Slowly the party moved upward over the great slope of ice into the recess, looking for steps abruptly ending above a crevasse or for signs of an avalanche.
Now it was some crevasse gaping across their path; they must search this way and that for a firm snow-bridge by which to overpass it.
He lay in the bottom of the crevasse in some snow which was quite smooth.
Chayne began to hear François' labored breathing and then suddenly at the edge of the crevasse he saw appear the hair of a man's head.
It is customary to leave the Grands Mulets for the ascent to the summit soon after midnight, in order to get over the immense snow slopes before the action of the sun has loosened the avalanches and weakened the crevasse bridges.
A bridge of snow spanning a crevasse gave way beneath them, and, the rope breaking, they disappeared and perished in the abyss.
Once I was able not only to descend into a crevasse but to follow it beyond its open part into the very substance of the glacier.
Perhaps, at one end the crevasse will be roofed over, and there you may gaze into the deep shadow and find the blue deepen almost to black.
A stone that plunges in a crevasse to the bottom of the glacier will have similar experiences.
To reach the glacier itself we traversed a crevasse of great depth, and some twenty feet wide; on a bridge of ice, one or two feet in width, and broken toward the end, where we were obliged to spring across.
In the shallow cup that the five hills formed, they met with a long, treacherous crevasse whose yawning depth of three hundred feet effectually cut off any further progress in a direct line.
The immense crevasse dipped from an overhanging glacier on one of the five mountains and slanted across the granite ridge they had been skirting.
Since that experience I have usually looked long before leaping into a crevasse and then have not leaped.
A stream pouring into the crevasse from above, had washed down a stone.
As I reached the opening, there came a rending crash, a splintering of ice, and broken blocks came hurtling into the crevasse just outside my cavern door.
