Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 12
... ledge underneath I should have felt per- fectly at ease , but on the stability of the snow - wedge I dared not calculate . To retreat was dangerous , to advance useless ; for right in front of me was a sheer smooth precipice , which ...
... ledge underneath I should have felt per- fectly at ease , but on the stability of the snow - wedge I dared not calculate . To retreat was dangerous , to advance useless ; for right in front of me was a sheer smooth precipice , which ...
Pagina 23
... 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 of the guide Tairraz was precipitated much further , and was much more broken ...
... 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 of the guide Tairraz was precipitated much further , and was much more broken ...
Pagina 38
... ledge where all can stand together , and Carrel proposes to us ( for Bennen and he can only commu- nicate by signs , the one knowing only French , the other German ) to go on and see whether an easier way can be found still further to ...
... ledge where all can stand together , and Carrel proposes to us ( for Bennen and he can only commu- nicate by signs , the one knowing only French , the other German ) to go on and see whether an easier way can be found still further to ...
Pagina 39
John Tyndall. leads to the right , and moves swiftly up from ledge to ledge . Time is getting on , but at length we emerge over the rocks just in face of the gap , and separated from it by a sort of large snow - crater , overhung on the ...
John Tyndall. leads to the right , and moves swiftly up from ledge to ledge . Time is getting on , but at length we emerge over the rocks just in face of the gap , and separated from it by a sort of large snow - crater , overhung on the ...
Pagina 41
... ledge of rock , with a wall on one side , and nothing on the other : there is no hold for hands or alpenstock , and the ledge slopes . a little , so that if the nails in our boots hold not , down we shall go : in the middle of it a ...
... ledge of rock , with a wall on one side , and nothing on the other : there is no hold for hands or alpenstock , and the ledge slopes . a little , so that if the nails in our boots hold not , down we shall go : in the middle of it a ...
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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...