a bergschrund. These crevasses form as moving glacial ice shears away from static ice, forming deep chasms that sometimes plunge downwards for hundreds of feet. Lusti and Gee needed to find a way ...

The climber was found in a bergschrund. A bergschrund is a deep and often broad crevasse, or series of crevasses, which develop near the head of a mountain glacier. The risk of death will always ...

“The bergschrund on the Hogsback is open and ... “Warming and melt can weaken or collapse existing snow that bridges over crevasses in a glacier. Oppositely, snow storms depositing new snow ...