Usage examples (18)

• After crossing the bergschrund, we are on the main face and the Ferrari route; this is what you've come for!
• A large crevasse called a bergschrund usually occurs at the top of the glacier near the head wall.
• It breaks itself loose from the thinner snows about it, too shallow to share its motion, and from the rock rim which surrounds it, forming a deep fissure called the...
• Skirting the base of the mountain above us, we came to a gigantic bergschrund, a mile and a half long and 1000 ft. deep.