Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... steep my thoughts in the tranquillity of English valleys , and confine my 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 ...
... steep my thoughts in the tranquillity of English valleys , and confine my 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 ...
Pagina 9
... steep , the aspect of the place was by no means terrible : comparing with it my memory of other gulleys in the Chamouni moun- tains , I imagined that three hours would place us at the top . We not only expected an easy conquest of the ...
... steep , the aspect of the place was by no means terrible : comparing with it my memory of other gulleys in the Chamouni moun- tains , I imagined that three hours would place us at the top . We not only expected an easy conquest of the ...
Pagina 10
... steep ; we swerved towards them , and worked laboriously upwards for three - quarters of an hour . Mr. Hawkins and the two guides then turned to the left , and regained the snow , leaving me among the crags . They had steps to cut ...
... steep ; we swerved towards them , and worked laboriously upwards for three - quarters of an hour . Mr. Hawkins and the two guides then turned to the left , and regained the snow , leaving me among the crags . They had steps to cut ...
Pagina 13
... steep , and along it were two great scars , resembling the deep - cut channels of a mountain stream . They were , indeed , channels cut by the snow - torrents from the heights . We scanned those heights . The view was bounded by a ...
... steep , and along it were two great scars , resembling the deep - cut channels of a mountain stream . They were , indeed , channels cut by the snow - torrents from the heights . We scanned those heights . The view was bounded by a ...
Pagina 14
... steep slope of compact ice . The men were very weary , the hewing of the steps exhausting , and the footing , particularly on some glazed rocks over which we had to pass , exceedingly insecure . Once on trying to fix my alpenstock I ...
... steep slope of compact ice . The men were very weary , the hewing of the steps exhausting , and the footing , particularly on some glazed rocks over which we had to pass , exceedingly insecure . Once on trying to fix my alpenstock I ...
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