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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 58

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up, but it will be as constantlyformed again. Such a crevasse is called abergschrund. The top edge of every normal glacier, where it abuts against rocks, is outlinedby a bergschrund. As the summer season ad-vances bergschrunds grow wider and wider.Early in the year they may be entirely bridgedover,… … Glissading. discover the best point of passage. The strongestbridges, as stated before, are liable to be in thetrack of falling stones. Very large bergschrundsare wont to present problems of great complexityfor a climber, and some, ultimately passed, havetaken hours to get over, when the ice-wall…

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