The process of breaking or forming crevasses; moving across glaciers and ice fields that have crevasses, or engaging in the hazardous activity of navigating cracked ice.
Present participle of 'crevasse' as a verb, formed by adding '-ing' to the root. The verb use developed from mountaineers describing the action of crossing crevassed terrain.
"Crevassing" is a mountaineering term that sounds gentle but describes something intense—it's the careful, skillful navigation of treacherous, cracked glaciers where one mistake means falling into an abyss.
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