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a glacier's secret trapdoor, patiently waiting for someone to mistake snow for floor.
means A deep, often dangerous open crack or fissure, especially one in a glacier or ice sheet (and also used for breaks in a levee or riverbank).
from From French crevasse, meaning a crack or fissure, which traces back to the Old French verb crever, 'to break or burst,' from the Latin crepare, 'to crack, creak, rattle.' That same Latin root cracks open into English crevice — a smaller cousin — so a crevasse is essentially a crevice that grew up, deepened, and learned to swallow climbers whole.
- depth
- some plunge over 150 feet into blue darkness
- snow bridge
- thin snow lids hide the lethal gap
- glacier movement
- forms as ice stretches and cracks downhill
- rescue gear
- climbers rope together to haul fallen partners out
- blue glow
- deep ice absorbs red light, leaving eerie blue
bergschrund on mont blanc — deep crevasse separating glacier from mountain wall at 4,808m, responsible for multiple climbing deaths
messner crevasse fall 1970 — reinhold messner fell 40 feet into crevasse on gran sasso, broke leg, crawled out