# My Home in the Alps

Author: Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs., 1861-1934

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66527

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=My+Home+in+the+Alps+Le+Blond&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Beyond the comparatively small circle of climbers, very few travellers in Switzerland seem to have a clear idea to what class of man a good Alpine guide belongs. Many persons picture to themselves a typical guide as an individual whose garments are in as shocking a state of disrepair as are the summits of most of his native peaks; who bears visible and invisible evidence of an entire ignorance of the use of soap in combination with water; to whom Truefitt is embodied twice a year in his wife, unless perchance his youngest born is allowed as a treat to wield the shears; whose manner is boorish, whose gait is too strong a mixture of a roll and a limp to be classified even as a slouch, and w...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-home-in-the-alps-66527/chapters/2/index.md)