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Instead of descending all the way to base camp, I decided to spend the night in the 'schrund beneath the chimney, on the off chance that my head would be more together the next morning.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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Some few inches from a berg-schrund, 'neath the pale moon's freezing light:
Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling
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If, madam, Zimmermann went on with all the satisfaction attendant on the enunciation of a scientific truth, we take a body and drop it in the schrund of this gletscher; and the ice stream moves so slower at its base than on the upper part, and the ice will cover it, efen if we could reach the base, which is a mile in depth.
Mrs. Knollys 1907
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By now I was quite anxious that the guides should find the _schrund_ difficult.
A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899
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