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How to use bergschrund in a sentence

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I reach the bergschrund in less than an hour, only to find that I've miscalculated.
The bergschrund may be invisible in winter if snow covers it, but summer melting usually brings it out.
Pumping turn after exuberant turn, I drop to the south side of the mountain until I'm looking straight down into the gaping bergschrund.
It will be stored in a bergschrund, a natural crevasse between rock and ice.
Moving glacier ice can sometimes separate from stagnant ice above, forming a bergschrund.
From the bergschrund, the fastest is ski down to Argentière.
A bergschrund forms when the movement of the glacier separates the moving ice from the stationary ice forming a crevasse.
It generally results from erosion beneath the bergschrund of a glacier.
Examples from Classical Literature
We crossed the snow, cut our way through a piece of entangled glacier, reached the bergschrund, and passed it without a rope.
On arriving, we explored a crevasse and examined the bergschrund at the top.
We hurried on and managed to get across the bergschrund before the last rays of sunlight left the summit of the Jungfrau.
We resumed our seats, therefore, and waited another hour, and then commenced our descent to the bergschrund.
There we thankfully left the arte, and, turning to the right, struck straight down the ice-slope towards the bergschrund.
Happily the bergschrund was choked with snow, and we escaped with an involuntary slide.
About 800 feet below the spot where their fall commenced was a small bergschrund, or crack across the ice.
We were now sufficiently near to the bergschrund to be able to form some idea of its nature and difficulty.
This crevice is called by the German-Swiss guides the bergschrund.
As long as the depth of snow is slight the bergschrund may remain open.
At each end of the nunatak there was a very fine bergschrund.
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