The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
From inside the book
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Էջ 111
... dangerous in the getting , though they enhance no skin and have no setting save in the memories that delight the mind , a worthy setting and one the more refined the more the danger , as gold is tried by fire , and our friend's memories ...
... dangerous in the getting , though they enhance no skin and have no setting save in the memories that delight the mind , a worthy setting and one the more refined the more the danger , as gold is tried by fire , and our friend's memories ...
Էջ 156
... danger was to be met , would succumb to his own fears of what might be . There is here , in reality , little or no danger of a fall . The great danger is from avalanches , which may start rolling down when the snow is deeper than we ...
... danger was to be met , would succumb to his own fears of what might be . There is here , in reality , little or no danger of a fall . The great danger is from avalanches , which may start rolling down when the snow is deeper than we ...
Էջ 439
... danger for one of his charges , a danger which only prompt , courageous assistance could meet , he managed to give the needful help without undue effort . And he did so , far less because the dictates of duty or humanity ruled out the ...
... danger for one of his charges , a danger which only prompt , courageous assistance could meet , he managed to give the needful help without undue effort . And he did so , far less because the dictates of duty or humanity ruled out the ...
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