The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
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... couloir , like the first , is shut in by very steep walls . Its bed is ice covered by a thin shroud of powdery snow ... couloir ends as its predecessor did in a vertical drop . We cross the rib that separates it from a third couloir ...
... couloir , like the first , is shut in by very steep walls . Its bed is ice covered by a thin shroud of powdery snow ... couloir ends as its predecessor did in a vertical drop . We cross the rib that separates it from a third couloir ...
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... couloir down which raced a snow river . We managed badly somehow ; at any rate , Ulrich and I found ourselves on a place where there was not room for us both to stand , at the end of the extra rope . He was very in- secure , and could ...
... couloir down which raced a snow river . We managed badly somehow ; at any rate , Ulrich and I found ourselves on a place where there was not room for us both to stand , at the end of the extra rope . He was very in- secure , and could ...
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... couloir . The rocks were steep , and snow had accumulated on them untouched as yet by the wind . How had the wind swept the snow in the couloir hard and left the Islabs at this side unaffected ? When these slabs are snow - free they are ...
... couloir . The rocks were steep , and snow had accumulated on them untouched as yet by the wind . How had the wind swept the snow in the couloir hard and left the Islabs at this side unaffected ? When these slabs are snow - free they are ...
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