CHAPTER X

AN ASCENT OF HAIDINGER

A Glacier Tramp—The Penguin Rocks—A Fairyland Grotto—Second Breakfast and some Reflections—Rock Avalanches—Beautiful Schrunds—A Sharp Arête—Scaling a Precipice—Zurbriggen’s Axe—A Difficult Ice Slope—A Problem solved by Rubber—On the Summit Ridge—A Splendid Panorama—The Descent—The Bivouac again 144