In a different variation, on the Himalayan mountain Lhotse, (whose ascent is part of the South Col route up Mount Everest) the bergschrund topping the glacier does not lie near the top of a ridgeline, but at the bottom of a high mountain face
After a descent of the Aiguille du Dru with G. Löwenbach and Jakob Oberhollenzer on August 25, 1899, an ice axe broke and the rope team fell into a bergschrund.