Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... danger . The party were , however , tired when they reached this place , and to avoid the roughness of the ridge they took to the snow . The inclination of the slope above was moderate ; it steepened considerably lower down , but its ...
... danger . The party were , however , tired when they reached this place , and to avoid the roughness of the ridge they took to the snow . The inclination of the slope above was moderate ; it steepened considerably lower down , but its ...
Pagina 22
... danger , why did not the guides quit the snow and resort to the ridge ? They must have had full confidence in their power to stop the glissade which seemed so imminent , or else they were reckless of the lives they had in charge . At ...
... danger , why did not the guides quit the snow and resort to the ridge ? They must have had full confidence in their power to stop the glissade which seemed so imminent , or else they were reckless of the lives they had in charge . At ...
Pagina 28
... danger , gangs of men being posted in the courses of the torrents to divert the boulders , which every moment threatened to overwhelm the bridges on the route . A more unlucky year for glacier expeditions , therefore , could hardly be ...
... danger , gangs of men being posted in the courses of the torrents to divert the boulders , which every moment threatened to overwhelm the bridges on the route . A more unlucky year for glacier expeditions , therefore , could hardly be ...
Pagina 48
... is dangerous where a good climber cannot be secure of his footing ; a place is not dangerous where a good climber is in no danger of 6 slipping , although to slip may be fatal . We 48 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... is dangerous where a good climber cannot be secure of his footing ; a place is not dangerous where a good climber is in no danger of 6 slipping , although to slip may be fatal . We 48 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 110
... danger which would infallibly beset any attempt to ascend it from this side , except by one of its arêtes . At any moment the mountain- side may be raked by a fire as deadly as that of cannon . After due deliberation we moved along the ...
... danger which would infallibly beset any attempt to ascend it from this side , except by one of its arêtes . At any moment the mountain- side may be raked by a fire as deadly as that of cannon . After due deliberation we moved along the ...
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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...