During summer therefore, a randkluft will become wider and thus more difficult for climbers to negotiate.

"Just a small randkluft moat where the ice falls away from the ridge wall.

Unlike a randkluft, a bergschrund has two ice walls.

However, the randkluft is sometimes called a bergschrund.

Even more difficult is the randkluft because the ice retreats further and further from the rock as it melts.

Depending on the season the randkluft of the glacier is a key point on the way to the Klettersteig.

The randkluft arises in part from the melting of the ice arising from the presence of the warmer rock face.

It was nearly 0930 when they reached the moatlike randkluft that was the western edge of the Tine Glacier.

The bergschrund is distinct from the randkluft (also called rimaye), which is the crevasse of which one face is the rock, back wall of the corrie.

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.

A randkluft (from the German for marginal cleft/crevasse) is the headwall gap between a glacier or snowfield and the adjacent rock face at the back of the cirque or, more loosely, between the rock face and the side of the glacier.