A crevasse is a deep crack that forms in a glacier or ice sheet. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear...
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Aspects of crevasse rescue Crevasse rescue (or crevasse-extraction) is a set of techniques in mountaineering where climbers use their equipment to pull...
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"Into the Crevasse" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 60th overall episode of the series...
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A crevasse splay is a sedimentary fluvial deposit which forms when a stream breaks its natural or artificial levees and deposits sediment on a floodplain...
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Sauvé's Crevasse was a Mississippi River levee failure in May 1849 that resulted in flooding much of New Orleans, Louisiana. In May 1849 the Mississippi...
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attempt to pull Annie out of the crevasse, but an ice boulder falls, knocking Wick and Vaughn from the ledge in the crevasse, and pulling Annie and Peter...
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massive transverse blocks that calve off the upper glacier, creating gaping crevasses (of order 100 m deep and often over 15 metres or 50 feet wide). As these...
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Crevasse Crag is a jagged steep-sided prominence on the summit of a glaciated mountain ridge in the Lillooet Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada...
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Hamarglovene Crevasses Jutulgryta Crevasses Jutulpløgsla Crevasses Kråsen Crevasse Field Styggebrekka Crevasses Trollkjelen Crevasse Field Ulendet Crevasses Akebono...
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La Crevasse is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, overlooking Sembrancher in the canton of Valais. It lies just east of the Col des Planches. The mountain...
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the large crevasse immediately underneath. Yates realized the situation that Simpson had been in and that he must have fallen into the crevasse when the...
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The Jutulpløgsla Crevasses (72°28′S 1°35′W / 72.467°S 1.583°W / -72.467; -1.583) form a crevasse field halfway up Jutulstraumen Glacier, about 8 nautical...
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90°26′29″W / 30.00222°N 90.44139°W / 30.00222; -90.44139 The Bonnet Carré Crevasse (1871) was one of several levee breaches in the Bonnet Carré area in the...
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Imja Tse (section Headwall crevasse)
(ladders) at the crevasse. As of the 2016 fall climbing season, a 5-metre high fixed aluminum ladder is being used to cross the crevasse. Imja Glacier Imja...
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glaciers where a rope team member falling into a crevasse is about to drag the other members into the crevasse with them, it is critical that the climber(s)...
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Sulzberger Ice Shelf (redirect from Crevasse Valley Glacier)
Glacier to the Denfeld Mountains. It then runs north past the mouth of the Crevasse Valley Glacier and northwest along the southern edge of the Guest Peninsula...
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Overbank (section Crevasse splays)
referred to as floodplain deposits. Examples include natural levees and crevasse splays. Floodplains are far wider than the channel they border, reaching...
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The Crevasse Canyon Formation is a coal-bearing Cretaceous geologic formation in New Mexico and Arizona. The formation is divided into three members, in...
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down into a crevasse before reaching Camp-1 at an altitude of 5750m. No rescue effort has yielded any results; he remains inside the crevasse. Recovery...
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Styggebrekka Crevasses is a crevasse field near the center of Austreskorve Glacier, in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Plotted from surveys...
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Jim Wickwire (section Crevasse on McKinley)
dragging a sled. Glaciers often have deep crevasses, which can be concealed by thin layers of snow. A crevasse opened up beneath Kerrebrock who fell in...
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The Hamarglovene Crevasses (71°56′S 5°5′E / 71.933°S 5.083°E / -71.933; 5.083) are a crevasse field in lower Vestreskorve Glacier just east of Hamaroya...
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Bowie Crevasse Field is a large crevasse field at a break in slope on the Minnesota Glacier between the southeast end of the Bastien Range and Anderson...
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A bergschrund (from the German for mountain cleft) is a crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice or firn above. It...
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known to set off avalanches under certain conditions. Glissading near crevasses (e.g. a glacier or a bergshrund) is also very dangerous, and even more...
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helicopter. In 2016 a crevasse opened at high altitude, also indicating previously unobserved glacial movements. The new crevasse forms an obstacle to...
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years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as crevasses and seracs, as it slowly flows and deforms under stresses induced by its...
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Flood Range (redirect from Berlin Crevasse Field)
Berlin include Brandenberger Bluff and Fields Peak in the north, the Berlin Crevasse Field, Melford Knoll, Kraut Rocks, and Merrem Peak to the west, and Berlin...
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negotiating the badly crevassed area one mile west of Drop Camp. It was raining hard and visibility was poor. The first two major crevasses were crossed and...
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