Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... rest is unattainable , for there is no resting - place . At every brow I pause ; legs and breast are laid against the rough rock , so as to lessen by their friction the strain upon the arms , which are stretched to grasp some ...
... rest is unattainable , for there is no resting - place . At every brow I pause ; legs and breast are laid against the rough rock , so as to lessen by their friction the strain upon the arms , which are stretched to grasp some ...
Pagina 15
... rest , and then learned that Lauener was extremely ill . To quell the pangs of toothache he had chewed a cigar , which after his day's exertion was too much for him . He soon recovered , however , and we endeavoured to regain the track ...
... rest , and then learned that Lauener was extremely ill . To quell the pangs of toothache he had chewed a cigar , which after his day's exertion was too much for him . He soon recovered , however , and we endeavoured to regain the track ...
Pagina 25
... rest , but , if well done , sufficient , I believe , to stop a second person . I do not lightly express this opinion it is founded on varied experience upon slopes at least as steep as that under consideration . Consider now the bearing ...
... rest , but , if well done , sufficient , I believe , to stop a second person . I do not lightly express this opinion it is founded on varied experience upon slopes at least as steep as that under consideration . Consider now the bearing ...
Pagina 31
... rest in the qualities which fit a man for a leader in hazardous expeditions , combining boldness and prudence with an ease and power peculiar to himself , so he has a faculty 1860 ] 31 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
... rest in the qualities which fit a man for a leader in hazardous expeditions , combining boldness and prudence with an ease and power peculiar to himself , so he has a faculty 1860 ] 31 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
Pagina 37
... rest , than that they could assist him ; but we were only four , all tolerably sure - footed , and in point of fact . I do not recollect a slip or stumble of consequence made by any one of us . Soon the slope lessens for a while , but ...
... rest , than that they could assist him ; but we were only four , all tolerably sure - footed , and in point of fact . I do not recollect a slip or stumble of consequence made by any one of us . Soon the slope lessens for a while , but ...
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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 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...