Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The following pages were mostly written with pencil in the railway train when the writer was returning from Alpine holidays. The letters were published in the _Cambridge Chronicle_ as a record of the mountaineering season, and extend over the past five years.
The following pages were mostly written with pencil in the railway train when the writer was returning from Alpine holidays. The letters were published in the _Cambridge Chronic...
2. Part 2To climb the Blümlis-Alphorn, the highest point of the range, we slept out at a hut, which was unluckily occupied by workmen, who were building another hut close by. Our night i...
3. Part 3Leaving Zermatt we spent one night at the Schwarzsee Hotel, close to the Matterhorn, intending to cross over into Italy by the Furgg-joch—this pass skirts the Matterhorn; we cli...
4. Part 4Early on the morning following we crossed the Lötschen Lücke, a beautiful pass of snow and ice, with the finest crevasses full of strange ice architecture, and came to Ried in t...
5. Part 5One night only at Zermatt and then up at 4.30 to catch the six o’clock train from Zermatt to Visp in the Rhone Valley. This is the new line which many climbers believe will dist...
6. Part 6When at the summit he apparently entered the focus of a severe storm, and a discharge of lightning took place through his body and that of his horse, killing them both instantan...
7. Part 7THE OEDIPUS TYRANNUS; A RECORD BY L. SPEED AND F. R. PRYOR of the Performance in November 1887. The text with illustrations on each page, and a heliogravure by Dujardin, after a...