Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 12
... advance useless ; for right in front of me was a sheer smooth precipice , which completely extin- guished the thought of further rock - work . I ex- amined the place below me , and saw that a slip would be attended with the very worst ...
... advance useless ; for right in front of me was a sheer smooth precipice , which completely extin- guished the thought of further rock - work . I ex- amined the place below me , and saw that a slip would be attended with the very worst ...
Pagina 25
... advance , by which it was effectually fettered . But this was not all . When the attached arm re- ceives the jerk , the guide instinctively grasps the rope with the other hand ; in doing so , he relin- quishes his staff , and thus loses ...
... advance , by which it was effectually fettered . But this was not all . When the attached arm re- ceives the jerk , the guide instinctively grasps the rope with the other hand ; in doing so , he relin- quishes his staff , and thus loses ...
Pagina 41
... advance , and perched like a bird on some projecting crag , contrives to find a way . Now we crawl singly along a narrow ledge of rock , with a wall on one side , and nothing on the other : there is no hold for hands or alpenstock , and ...
... advance , and perched like a bird on some projecting crag , contrives to find a way . Now we crawl singly along a narrow ledge of rock , with a wall on one side , and nothing on the other : there is no hold for hands or alpenstock , and ...
Pagina 42
... advance ; my turn comes next ; I en- deavour to mount by squeezing myself against the sides , but near the top friction suddenly gives way , and down comes my weight upon the rope : - a stout haul from above , and now one knee is upon ...
... advance ; my turn comes next ; I en- deavour to mount by squeezing myself against the sides , but near the top friction suddenly gives way , and down comes my weight upon the rope : - a stout haul from above , and now one knee is upon ...
Pagina 47
... . Descending , unlike ascend- ing , is generally not so bad as it seems ; but in some places here only one can advance at a time , the other carefully holding the rope . Tenez forte- ment , 1860 ] 47 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
... . Descending , unlike ascend- ing , is generally not so bad as it seems ; but in some places here only one can advance at a time , the other carefully holding the rope . Tenez forte- ment , 1860 ] 47 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
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Æggischhorn afterwards Aletsch glacier Aletschhorn Alps appearance arête ascent atmosphere avalanche barrier base beautiful Bel Alp Bennen blue bottom Breuil Carrel chasm cliff climbed climber clouds Col du Géant colour companion couloir crags crevasses crossed dark deep descended erosion fall feet Finsteraarhorn fissures foot formed freezing frozen Glace Glacier du Géant gorge green Grindelwald halted heat heaven heights Helmholtz Jungfrau lake Lauener ledge length light liquid looked mass Matterhorn melted Mer de Glace Monte Rosa moraine morning Morteratsch Morteratsch glacier motion mould mountain névé night observed passed peak pieces of ice Pontresina portion precipice pressure rays reached regelation rendered Rhone ridge river rocks rope round seemed séracs shadow side slope snow snow-field soon steep stones summit surface temperature theory thought turned Tyndall Val Tournanche valley vapour vertical weather Weisshorn wind Zermatt
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Pagina 460 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Pagina 292 - Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any definition which omits life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue.
Pagina 190 - Ever young, ever mighty — with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within him — the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky. It was he who raised aloft the waters which cut out these ravines; it was he who planted the glaciers on the...
Pagina 291 - I tried to look at this universal cloud, containing within itself the prediction of all that has since occurred ; I tried to imagine it as the seat of those forces whose action was to issue in solar and stellar systems, and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness with which I regarded 458 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. the Matterhorn ? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home...