Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... peaks and glaciers cannot do better than consult the excellent little volume lately published by Leslie Stephen , where , under the head of ' Dangers of Mountaineering , ' this question is discussed . I would willingly have published ...
... peaks and glaciers cannot do better than consult the excellent little volume lately published by Leslie Stephen , where , under the head of ' Dangers of Mountaineering , ' this question is discussed . I would willingly have published ...
Pagina 1
... mountain work to occasional excursions in the Scotch Highlands , or amid the Welsh and Cumbrian hills . But in my weariness the mere thought of the snow - peaks and glaciers was an exhilaration ; CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAUWINEN-THOR.
... mountain work to occasional excursions in the Scotch Highlands , or amid the Welsh and Cumbrian hills . But in my weariness the mere thought of the snow - peaks and glaciers was an exhilaration ; CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAUWINEN-THOR.
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John Tyndall. the snow - peaks and glaciers was an exhilaration ; and to the Alps , therefore , I resolved once more to go . I wrote to my former guide , Christian Lauener , desiring him to meet me at Thun on Saturday the 4th of August ...
John Tyndall. the snow - peaks and glaciers was an exhilaration ; and to the Alps , therefore , I resolved once more to go . I wrote to my former guide , Christian Lauener , desiring him to meet me at Thun on Saturday the 4th of August ...
Pagina 3
... peaks of the mountains ; then closing up again , and hiding in their dismal folds the very posts which stood at a distance of ten paces from the hotel door . The effects soon became exceedingly striking , the muta- tions were so quick ...
... peaks of the mountains ; then closing up again , and hiding in their dismal folds the very posts which stood at a distance of ten paces from the hotel door . The effects soon became exceedingly striking , the muta- tions were so quick ...
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... peak of the Breithorn to the point at which we were aiming . This , however , was visibly nearer ; and , for the first time since we began to climb , Lauener declared that he had good See ' Note on Clouds , ' p . 82 , hopes - Jetzt habe ...
... peak of the Breithorn to the point at which we were aiming . This , however , was visibly nearer ; and , for the first time since we began to climb , Lauener declared that he had good See ' Note on Clouds , ' p . 82 , hopes - Jetzt habe ...
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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...