Ski-runs in the High Alps

The Oberland circuit--My appointment with Arnold Lunn--An Anglo-Swiss piece of work--An unbelieving public--Switzerland and Britain--Geographical--Practical--We start from Beate...

The “high-level” route--Previous attempts--My itinerary--Marcel Kurz--The wise old men of Bourg St. Pierre--Maurice Crettex--Guides with bamboos and laupars!--The snow-clad clif...

Vermala--The mysterious runner--The Plain of the Dead--Popular beliefs--The purification of the grazings--A haunted piece of rock--An awful noose is thrown over the country-side...

It has been three times my lot to lay the flat of my ski across the brow of the Diablerets. This in itself would be of but little interest had not a trifling incident occurred e...

No visitor to Switzerland requires telling that a section of the Bernese Alps runs up to the Gemmi pass from the south-west. In this secondary range, the leading groups are the...

In a chapter like this, a writer on the High Alps may well abstain from poetical or literary developments. His subject is best handled as a technical sport, and personal experie...

A legacy from the past--The formation of glaciers and atmospheric conditions--Forests and glaciers--Our deficient knowledge--The upper ice and snow reservoirs--What is the annua...

The aspect of the Grand Combin--Topography--Weather conditions for a successful raid--A classification of peaks--The Orny nivometer--The small snowfall of the High Alps--The shr...

The awakening of the English--Switzerland the ice and snow rink of Europe--The high winter stations and the low--Principal sporting centres--Insular delusions--The Continental n...

Old snow well padded with new--Christmas Eve in the Bernina hospice--The alarum rings--Misgivings before battle--Crampons and sealskins--A causeway of snow--An outraged glacier-...

The shoe--The original bindings--The modern bindings--The foot--The hinge in the foot--Different functions of the toe-strap and heel-band--The parts of the binding--Faulty faste...

The Panossière hut--Tropical winter heat--Schoolboys and the Matterhorn--Shall it be rock or snow?--The Combin de Valsorey--My third ascent of the Grand Combin--The track home--...

The Arosa Information Bureau--The hospitality of sanatorium guests--The allurements of loneliness--Whither the spirit leads--Avalanche weather--The Spring god and King Frost--Th...

The new “Alpinism”--A re-statement of elementary principles--Ski-runners _versus_ summer pedestrians--The experiences of an eminent physician--How to walk in snow--Put not your...

The awakening of the English--Switzerland the ice and snow rink of Europe--The high winter stations and the low--Principal sporting centres--Insular delusions--The Continental n...

The Oberland circuit--My appointment with Arnold Lunn--An Anglo-Swiss piece of work--An unbelieving public--Switzerland and Britain--Geographical--Practical--We start from Beate...

The “high-level” route--Previous attempts--My itinerary--Marcel Kurz--The wise old men of Bourg St. Pierre--Maurice Crettex--Guides with bamboos and laupars!--The snow-clad clif...

A legacy from the past--The formation of glaciers and atmospheric conditions--Forests and glaciers--Our deficient knowledge--The upper ice and snow reservoirs--What is the annua...

Vermala--The mysterious runner--The Plain of the Dead--Popular beliefs--The purification of the grazings--A haunted piece of rock--An awful noose is thrown over the country-side...

The aspect of the Grand Combin--Topography--Weather conditions for a successful raid--A classification of peaks--The Orny nivometer--The small snowfall of the High Alps--The shr...

The shoe--The original bindings--The modern bindings--The foot--The hinge in the foot--Different functions of the toe-strap and heel-band--The parts of the binding--Faulty faste...

Old snow well padded with new--Christmas Eve in the Bernina hospice--The alarum rings--Misgivings before battle--_Crampons_ and sealskins--A causeway of snow--An outraged glacie...

The Panossière hut--Tropical winter heat--Schoolboys and the Matterhorn--Shall it be rock or snow?--The Combin de Valsorey--My third ascent of the Grand Combin--The track home--...

The Arosa Information Bureau--The hospitality of sanatorium guests--The allurements of loneliness--Whither the spirit leads--Avalanche weather--The Spring god and King Frost--Th...

The new “Alpinism”--A re-statement of elementary principles--Ski-runners _versus_ summer pedestrians--The experiences of an eminent physician--How to walk in snow--Put not your...