Italian Alps Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia

The sharpest form of pain has in all ages been imagined under the figure of a man with the object of his most eager desire ever dangling before his eyes but out of reach. If--ma...

It was from Pinzolo that we first started for the Bocca di Brenta. On the evening of our ascent of the Presanella we sent François to enquire about the pass, our only knowledge...

Past those jagged spires, where yet Foot of man was never set; Past a castle yawning wide, With a great breach in its side, To a nest-like valley.--J. INGELOW.

Val di Zoldo is enclosed on three sides between the carriage-road of the Val d'Agordo and the Ampezzo, 'strada regia,' and on the fourth by the mule-pass from S. Vito to Caprile...

To the crowd, which having sat down in a draught on the roof of Europe spends its time mostly in bemoaning the cold, to the water-drinkers of St. Moritz or the pensioners of Pon...

Our acquaintances might, I sometimes fancy, be roughly divided into two classes. There are some who find sympathy in inanimate nature by itself; there are many to whom the unive...

In the last two chapters I have sketched a route from the highway of traffic and tourists--the Rhine valley--to the Italian Alps, passing to the west of the crowded roads which...

The following year found me in company with Mr. Tuckett, at the head of the western branch of Val Malenco, the valley on the south of the central mass of the Bernina. Our origin...

Huge mountains of immeasurable height Encompass'd all the level valley round With mighty slabs of rock that sloped upright, An insurmountable enormous bound;-- That vale was so...

The races of English and German mountaineers, after making due allowance for the exceptions which there are to every rule, will be found respectively to embody many of the chara...

What, I pray you, is more pleasant, more delectable and more acceptable unto a man than to behold the height of hills as if they were the very Atlantes themselves of heaven?

A year after the ascent of the Presanella I again found myself at the head of Val di Genova, one of a formidable party of seven, including two Swiss guides and a Tyrolese porter...

For August be your dwelling thirty towers Within an Alpine valley mountainous, Where never the sea wind may vex your house, But clear life, separate, like a star, be yours. So a...

Even in the Venetian Tyrol the tendency of tourists to choose the colder pine-clad north in place of the more tender and varied grace of the south has become observable. Cortina...

On our other side is the straight-up rock, And a path is kept 'twixt the gorge and it By boulderstones, where lichens mock The marks on a moth, and small ferns fit Their teeth t...

The Milan-Lecco and Milan-Bergamo railroads, the Val Tellina; the high-roads from Bergamo, Brescia, and the Val Camonica to Clusone; Varenna and Bellano on the Lago di Como, are...

By the high-road from Vicenza, through Bassano to Fonzaso, and thence up the valley of the Cismone to Primiero (carriage-road, with a break of 10 miles between Fonzaso and Ponte...

From the Rheinthal by the Prätigau and Fluela roads. From the Tyrolese Innthal by the new road from the Finstermünz through the Lower Engadine. From the Etschthal (Vintschgau),...

3. The Monte della Disgrazia from the Bernina Group _to face p._ 69 4. The Head of Val di Genova " 205 5. From the Adamello--looking East " 213 6. San Stefano and the Cima di Na...