Crevasse
Crevasse Measuring snowpack in a crevasse on the Easton Glacier, North Cascades, USA A crevasse is a crack or fissure in a ... will cause extension and formation of a crevasse. Transverse crevasses are the most common crevasse type, they form in a zone ...
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Crack   (translated from French)
Crack crack more symbolic system is the element in alpinism . They are due to the movement of glaciers which, while adapting to the slope will break. They are found generally perpendicular to the line of slope and measure few centimetres of width to several meters. Their depth can go until 50m ...
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Crevasse rescue
Crevasse rescue Crevasse rescue is the process of retrieving a climber from a crevasse in a glacier. Because of the frequency ... climbers break through the snow over a crevasse and fall in, crevasse rescue technique is a standard part ...
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Crevasse City (Starwars wiki)
Crevasse City The Crevasse city on Alderaan. Crevasse City was a city on Alderaan. It ...
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Crevasse Valley Glacier
Crevasse Valley Glacier Crevasse Valley Glacier (76°46′S 145°30′ ...
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Image:Crevasse.arp.500pix.jpg
Image:Crevasse.arp.500pix.jpg Image File history File ... Wikimedia Commons with the same name, Image:Crevasse.arp.500pix.jpg. Crevasse on the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. Very ...
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Glacier mass balance
... depth is measured using probing, snowpits or crevasse stratigraphy. Probing: In temperate glaciers, a probe ... are used to determine the snowpack depth. Crevasse stratigraphy makes use of annual layers revealed on the wall of a crevasse. Akin to tree rings, these layers are ... and other seasonal effects. The advantage of crevasse stratigraphy is that is provides a two ... measured every year. Measuring snowpack in a crevasse on the Easton Glacier, North Cascades, ...
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User:Citylover/Workinprogress/Eubot
... 48, 10 October 2005 (UTC) T3, Trollkjelen Crevasse Field: "... is a crevasse field about ..." What about wikilinking "crevasse" to "crevasse"? (I suppose that you probably think that ... overuse.) I could not find the expression "crevasse field" when looking it up. -- Citylover ...
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Touching the Void
... cut the rope, dropping Simpson into a crevasse. The next morning Yates descended the mountain ... Simpson and to his horror saw the crevasse below. He was certain that Simpson must have died in the crevasse and descended the rest of the mountain ... his life) to the bottom of the crevasse, and crawled out back onto the glacier ...
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Glossary of climbing terms
... any of the actual climbing. Bergschrund A crevasse that forms on the upper portion of ... steep ice or for setting up a crevasse rescue system. The strongest and most reliable ... limbs on a particular hold. Moat A crevasse that forms where the glacier pulls away ... extricate a climber after falling into a crevasse. See also List of climbing topics — ...
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