Category: Adventure
1. FOG-BOW SEEN FROM THE MATTERHORN ON JULY 14, 1885 2. MONT PELVOUX AND THE ALÉFROIDE, FROM NEAR MONT DAUPHIN 3. THE MONT CENIS ROAD AND THE FELL RAILWAY NEAR THE SUMMIT OF THE PASS, ON THE ITALIAN SIDE 4. THE MATTERHORN FROM NEAR THE SUMMIT OF THE THEODULE PASS 5. “THE CHIMN...
The year 1862 was still young, and the Matterhorn, clad in its wintry garb, bore but little resemblance to the Matterhorn of the summer, when a new force came to do battle with...
4. CHAPTER II.The district of which Mont Pelvoux and the neighboring summits are the culminating points is, both historically and topographically, one of the most interesting in the Alps. As...
8. CHAPTER VI.I crossed the Channel on the of July, 1863, embarrassed by the possession of two ladders, each twelve feet long, which joined together like those used by firemen, and shut up li...
24. CHAPTER XXII.Hudson and I again consulted as to the best and safest arrangement of the party. We agreed that it would be best for Croz to go first,[78] and Hadow second; Hudson, who was almo...
13. CHAPTER XI.Ten years ago very few people knew from personal knowledge how extremely inaccurately the chain of Mont Blanc was delineated. During the previous half century thousands had made...
6. CHAPTER IV.What power must have been required to shatter and to sweep away the missing parts of this pyramid; for we do not see it surrounded by heaps of fragments: one only sees other pea...
11. CHAPTER IX.Before five o’clock on the afternoon of June 23 we were trotting down the steep path that leads into La Bérarde. We put up, of course, with the chasseur-guide Rodier (who, as us...
10. CHAPTER VIII.When we arrived upon the highest summit of Mont Pelvoux, in Dauphine, in 1861, we saw, to our surprise and disappointment, that it was not the culminating point of the district,...
22. CHAPTER XX.All of the excursions that were set down in my programme had been carried out, with the exception of the ascent of the Matterhorn, and we now turned our faces in its direction,...
17. CHAPTER XV.We should have started for Zermatt about 7 A.M. on the 18th, had not Biener asked to be allowed to go to mass at Evolène, a village about two and a half hours from Abricolla. He...
18. CHAPTER XVI.The valley of Aosta is famous for its bouquetins and infamous for its crétins. The bouquetin, steinbock, or ibex, was formerly widely distributed throughout the Alps. It is now...
3. CHAPTER I.On the 23d of July, 1860, I started for my first tour in the Alps. As we steamed out into the Channel, Beachy Head came into view, and recalled a scramble of many years ago. Wit...
23. CHAPTER XXI.We started from Zermatt on the 13th of July at half-past five, on a brilliant and perfectly cloudless morning. We were eight in number—Croz, old Peter and his two sons,[69] Lord...
14. CHAPTER XII.On July 10, Croz and I went to Sierre, in the Valais, viâ the Col de Balme, the Col de la Forclaz and Martigny. The Swiss side of the Forclaz is not creditable to Switzerland. T...
15. CHAPTER XIII.Our career in 1864 had been one of unbroken success, but the great ascent upon which I had set my heart was not attempted, and until it was accomplished I was unsatisfied. Other...
12. CHAPTER X.From Ailefroide to Claux, but for the path, travel would be scarcely more easy than over the Pré de Madame Carle. The valley is strewn with immense masses of gneiss, from the si...
9. CHAPTER VII.Carrel had _carte blanche_ in the matter of guides, and his choice fell upon his relative Cæsar, Luc Meynet and two others whose names I do not know. These men were now brought...
5. CHAPTER III.Guide-books say that the pass of the Mont Cenis is dull. It is long, certainly, but it has a fair proportion of picturesque points, and it is not easy to see how it can be dull...
20. CHAPTER XVIII.Michel Croz now parted from us. His new employer had not arrived at Chamounix, but Croz considered that he was bound by honor to wait for him, and thus Christian Almer of Grinde...
19. CHAPTER XVII.Freethinking mountaineers have been latterly in the habit of going up one side of an Alp and coming down the other, and calling the route a pass. In this confusion of ideas may...
16. CHAPTER XIV.Croz and Biener did not return until past 5 A.M. on June 17, and we then set out at once for Zermatt, intending to cross the Col d’Hérens. But we did not proceed far before the...
2. CHAPTER XXII. DESCENT OF THE MATTERHORN1. FOG-BOW SEEN FROM THE MATTERHORN ON JULY 14, 1885 2. MONT PELVOUX AND THE ALÉFROIDE, FROM NEAR MONT DAUPHIN 3. THE MONT CENIS ROAD AND THE FELL RAILWAY NEAR THE SUMMIT OF THE...
21. CHAPTER XIX.The person who discovered the Col du Géant must have been a shrewd mountaineer. The pass was in use before any other was known across the main chain of Mont Blanc, and down to t...
1. CHAPTER VIII. FROM ST. MICHEL TO LA BÉRARDE ON THE MONT CENIS ROAD, BY