Hours of exercise in the Alps. [Followed by] Notes and comments on ice and glaciers [&c.].1871 |
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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 ...
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... snow for a 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 ...
... snow for a 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 ...
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... snow was evidently that of avalanches which had been shot down the couloir , kneading themselves into vast balls , and piling themselves in heaps upon the plain . The gradient steepened , the snow was hard , and the axe was invoked ...
... snow was evidently that of avalanches which had been shot down the couloir , kneading themselves into vast balls , and piling themselves in heaps upon the plain . The gradient steepened , the snow was hard , and the axe was invoked ...
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... snow - dust is scattered in the air . There is storm on the heights , which our guides affirm has turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether we might not send one of them back with ...
... snow - dust is scattered in the air . There is storm on the heights , which our guides affirm has turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether we might not send one of them back with ...
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... snow , and at a height of about five feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock ...
... snow , and at a height of about five feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock ...
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Æggischhorn afterwards Aletsch glacier Aletschhorn Alphubel Alpine Alps ancient arête ascended atmosphere avalanche barrier beauty Bennen Bergschrund blue bottom Breuil Carrel chasm cliff climbed climber clouds Col du Géant colour companion couloir crags crevasses crossed Crown 8vo dark deep descended distance erosion fall feet Finsteraarhorn fissures foot formed gorge green Grimsel halted heat heaven heights Illustrations Jungfrau lake Lauener ledge length light liquid looked Macugnaga mass Matterhorn melted Mer de Glace Monte Rosa moraine morning Morteratsch glacier motion mountain névé night observed passed peak Plates Pontresina portion Post 8vo precipice pressure reached regelation rendered Rhone ridge river rocks rope round Second Edition seemed side slope snow snow-field soon steep stones summit surface theory thought turned Tyndall Val Tournanche valley vapour vertical vols weather Weisshorn wind Woodcuts Zermatt
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