Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... body through space ; and it was gratifying to be thus assured that the man was in first - rate condition , and fully up to the hardest work . On Sunday the 5th of August , for the sake of a little training , I ascended the Faulhorn ...
... body through space ; and it was gratifying to be thus assured that the man was in first - rate condition , and fully up to the hardest work . On Sunday the 5th of August , for the sake of a little training , I ascended the Faulhorn ...
Pagina 19
... body of the guide Tairraz had been arrested , and where we found sad evidences . of his fate . From this point onward M. Curie shared the dangers of the ascent , until we reached the place where the rocks ended and the fatal snow- slope ...
... body of the guide Tairraz had been arrested , and where we found sad evidences . of his fate . From this point onward M. Curie shared the dangers of the ascent , until we reached the place where the rocks ended and the fatal snow- slope ...
Pagina 23
... body was found . Another slope ran from this point to the summit of another ledge , where the second body was arrested , while attached to it by a rope , and quite overhanging the ledge , was the body of the third traveller . The body ...
... body was found . Another slope ran from this point to the summit of another ledge , where the second body was arrested , while attached to it by a rope , and quite overhanging the ledge , was the body of the third traveller . The body ...
Pagina 24
... body , presenting a large surface , is thrown prostrate upon a slope covered with such snow , the granules act like friction wheels , offering hardly any resistance to the downward motion . A homely illustration will render intelligible ...
... body , presenting a large surface , is thrown prostrate upon a slope covered with such snow , the granules act like friction wheels , offering hardly any resistance to the downward motion . A homely illustration will render intelligible ...
Pagina 37
... body ; by this means you will stop yourself if it is possible . Once on your back , it is all over , unless others can save you : you have lost all chance of helping yourself . In a few minutes we stop , and rope all together , in which ...
... body ; by this means you will stop yourself if it is possible . Once on your back , it is all over , unless others can save you : you have lost all chance of helping yourself . In a few minutes we stop , and rope all together , in which ...
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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...