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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