Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... 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 alone . The 2 ...
... 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 alone . The 2 ...
Pagina 9
... space was as level as a prairie , but in front of us rose the mighty bulwarks which separated us from the neighbouring canton . To our right were the crags of the Breithorn , to our left the buttresses of the Jungfrau , while between ...
... space was as level as a prairie , but in front of us rose the mighty bulwarks which separated us from the neighbouring canton . To our right were the crags of the Breithorn , to our left the buttresses of the Jungfrau , while between ...
Pagina 34
... space of twenty - four hours . There was nothing for it , although our prospects of success were materially diminished by the snow , but to do the best we could . As far as I was concerned , I felt that I should be perfectly satisfied ...
... space of twenty - four hours . There was nothing for it , although our prospects of success were materially diminished by the snow , but to do the best we could . As far as I was concerned , I felt that I should be perfectly satisfied ...
Pagina 41
... with hard black ice , about an inch thick . The bottom leads out into space , and the top is somewhere in the upper regions : there is absolutely nothing to grasp at , and to this day 1860 ] THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT . 41.
... with hard black ice , about an inch thick . The bottom leads out into space , and the top is somewhere in the upper regions : there is absolutely nothing to grasp at , and to this day 1860 ] THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT . 41.
Pagina 49
... space of snow as possible , by fixing in the pole high up , and the feet far apart , for a slip or stumble now will pro- bably dissolve the adhesion of the fresh , not yet compacted mass , and we shall go down to the bottom in an ...
... space of snow as possible , by fixing in the pole high up , and the feet far apart , for a slip or stumble now will pro- bably dissolve the adhesion of the fresh , not yet compacted mass , and we shall go down to the bottom in an ...
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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...