The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
From inside the book
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... climber who already knows better things about sunrises and sunsets and summit views than any words can show him . It deals with the sporting side of mountaineering , the difficulties encountered and the ways in which they were overcome ...
... climber who already knows better things about sunrises and sunsets and summit views than any words can show him . It deals with the sporting side of mountaineering , the difficulties encountered and the ways in which they were overcome ...
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... climber say in effect : ' Rock is good enough for me : snow and ice only mess it up ; I shan't bother with that sort of Alp ! ' and then rush off to the Dolomites as a relief from the Fells , is equivalent to refusing to exchange the ...
... climber say in effect : ' Rock is good enough for me : snow and ice only mess it up ; I shan't bother with that sort of Alp ! ' and then rush off to the Dolomites as a relief from the Fells , is equivalent to refusing to exchange the ...
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... climbers is horrible to those most intimately concerned . The one good thing that can be said with certainty about this pub- licity is that the modern climber , even when his actual experience is small , is made aware of the dangers he ...
... climbers is horrible to those most intimately concerned . The one good thing that can be said with certainty about this pub- licity is that the modern climber , even when his actual experience is small , is made aware of the dangers he ...
Common terms and phrases
A. D. GODLEY admiration Alpine Journal Alps altitude arête ascent beauty beneath bergschrund cliffs climbers climbing clouds club cold couloir crag crevasses deep delight Dent Blanche Dent d'Hérens descend difficult distance doubt dragons Everest eyes F. S. Smythe F. W. BOURDILLON face feeling foot GEOFFREY WINTHROP YOUNG GEORGE LEIGH-MALLORY glacier guides gully hand height hills human J. A. Symonds ledge less lives look Matterhorn mind Mont Blanc morning moun Mount Mount Everest mountain nature never night once ourselves overhanging passed path peaks perhaps pleasure Pointe Blanche Pralong precipices reached rest ridge rise rock rope round route scenery Scheuchzer seemed sense side sight slopes snow Snowdon soul spirit steep step stone stood strong summit tains things thought traveller valley walk wall whole wind