I only just found out what a randkluft gap is. For years I’ve been wrongly calling it a bergschrund. I love how these words are readily known by German-speaking mountaineers and I am so late to the game despite it being in my field of study.

Wikipedia sets me straight: “A randkluft is similar to, but not identical with, a bergschrund, which is the place on a high-altitude glacier where the moving ice stream breaks away from the static ice frozen to the rock creating a large crevasse. Unlike a randkluft, a bergschrund has two ice walls.” and provides this helpful graphic.

And now I am already know something more in 2018 than I did in 2017. Keep learning, keep growing, so it is said!