Crossword-Solution: BERGSCHRUND 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

The outer ranks, ever broken, ever builded, formed a magnificent rampart, sculptured and corniced like the hanging wall of a bergschrund, and appeared hopelessly insurmountable, however easily one might ride the swelling waves beyond.

Often it was only by the grace of God that I did not fall headlong, and pull Wake out of his hold to the _bergschrund_ far below.

For in winter the crevasse of the bergschrund which surrounds the neve field is filled with snow and the neve is frozen fast to the rocky sides of the valley.

Hurrah! with a wild scream of triumph, Over snow, over boulders we fly, Our heads firmly pressed to the surface, Our heels pointing up to the sky! We bound o'er the bergschrund uninjured, We shoot o'er a precipice sheer; Hurrah, for the modern glissader! Hurrah, for the wild mountaineer! * * * * * But, alas! what is this? what a shaking! What a jar! what a bump! what a thump! Out of bed, in intense consternation, I bound with a hop, skip, and jump.

Note the big crevasse stretching away on right--a "Bergschrund," as the Swiss call a break where one side falls below the other.