A place where water broke through was known as a crevasse — a source of terror no less effective than a bursting dam — and the big ones were memorialized, like other great disasters, in a series of proper names: the Macarty Crevasse (1816), the Sauvé Crevasse (1849).
After breakfast, we struck camp, loaded our packs and headed to Camp I. Clipped into one of three rope teams, we walked roughly 50 feet apart, mindful to keep the rope taut in case one of us plunged through the snow into a crevasse.
On 17 January he broke through the lid of a crevasse, but the rope around his waist held him to the sledge and halted his fall.
From there you have to squeeze through a narrow crevasse that miners had actually chipped out of rock, which will then get you to a stream, which you need to follow upstream to get to the waterfalls and pools.
On 14 December 1912, B. E. S. Ninnis died when the sledge he was walking beside broke through the snow lid of a crevasse.
As Mertz skied ahead, singing songs from his student days, Ninnis, the largest sledge and the strongest dog team were lost when they broke through the snow lid of a crevasse.
On 14 December 1912, with the party more than 311 mile from the safety of the main base at Cape Denison, Ninnis and the sledge he was walking beside broke through the snow lid of a crevasse and were lost.
Once, in the poor visibility, he failed to notice the scar of a crevasse and his foot broke through the surface.
Recently a group of Afghan women, their blue and white and red burqas trailing open in the wind, walked in a line on one side of a crevasse, as if on a pilgrimage through the desolation.
