The uppermost crevasse, or "bergschrund," where the névé was attached to the mountain, was from 12 to 14 feet wide, and was bridged in a few places by the remains of snow avalanches.

A series of rugged zigzags enabled me to make my way down into the weird under-world of the crevasse.

It is probably deep in some crevasse or under the snows which surround the base of the Matterhorn....

All along the side of the cliff, as far as could be seen in both directions, the ice did not touch it, but there was this marginal crevasse seven feet wide and of unknown depth.

One of our porters was short-legged and a bad iceman; the other was a daring fellow, and he now threw the knapsack from his shoulders, came to the edge of the crevasse, looked into it, but drew back again.

I accordingly interposed, the man withdrew from the crevasse, and he and Simond descended to fetch the ladder.

After supper Simond went out to inspect the glacier, and was observed by Huxley, as twilight fell, in a state of deep contemplation beside a crevasse.

We were glad to get out of the range of these terrible projectiles, and still more so to escape the vicinity of that ugly crevasse.

I thus led the way to the base of the Rochers Bouges, up to which the fault already referred to had prolonged itself as a crevasse, which was roofed at one place by a most dangerous-looking snow-bridge.

Simond, who had come to the front to cross the crevasse, was now engaged in cutting steps, which he made deep and large, so that they might serve us on our return.

This wall was no doubt the upper side of a crevasse, the lower part of which had been filled by snow-drift.

The people who had been watching us from the Wengern Alp had been firing salutes all day, whenever the idea struck them, and whenever we surmounted a difficulty, such as the first great crevasse.

"One thing, however, astonished him; it was to find so little water in the bottom of the crevasse.

It is believed to lie buried deep in some crevasse in one of the great glaciers that emerge from the base of the Matterhorn.]

Urging being of no avail the rider dismounts, strikes a match, advances a cautious step or so, and finds himself at the precipitous brink of a newly formed crevasse.

He'd have to go farther inland to find his free range, but now, worst of all, the floating gardens of the coast swamps were coming out of the numberless channels on the crevasse water.

I cain't see nothin' but lilies east'ardworlds o'flowers comin' with the crevasse water behind 'em."

It was really a sort of crevasse in a tilted berg parallel to the original surface; the strata on either side had bent outwards; through the back the sky could be seen through a screen of beautiful iciclesit looked a royal purple, whether by contrast with the blue of the cavern or whether from optical illusion I do not know.

We have not struck a crevasse all day, which is a good sign.

After half an hour of this I looked round and found the second sledge halted some way in rearevidently someone had gone into a crevasse.

Lashly says the crevasse was 50 feet deep and 8 feet across, in form U, showing that the word 'unfathomable' can rarely be applied.

After topping the crevasse ridge we got on a better surface and came along fairly well, completing over 7 miles (geo.)

When he was down in the crevasse he wanted to go off exploring, but we dissuaded him.

He kept on saying, 'I wonder why this is running the way it isyou expect to find them at right angles.' Scott found inside crevasse warmer than above, but had no thermometer.

To civilized people from corn and cattle and wheat-field countries the cañon at first sight seems as uninhabitable as a glacier crevasse, utterly silent and barren.