The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
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Էջ 84
... doubt they would keep on ? The alternative , however , was suggested among them - the descent by the Corridor ; a prospect clearly of ignoble ease , but quite seriously suggested on account of the weakest member . Shame couldn't have ...
... doubt they would keep on ? The alternative , however , was suggested among them - the descent by the Corridor ; a prospect clearly of ignoble ease , but quite seriously suggested on account of the weakest member . Shame couldn't have ...
Էջ 104
... doubt acclaim it with enthusiasm as the last triumph of man the puny over Nature the powerful . We are accustomed to talk and think of this warfare between the lovers of Nature and the materialists as something new in the history of ...
... doubt acclaim it with enthusiasm as the last triumph of man the puny over Nature the powerful . We are accustomed to talk and think of this warfare between the lovers of Nature and the materialists as something new in the history of ...
Էջ 492
... doubt helped us to swallow our luncheon - or was it dinner ? -a difficult matter , for our tongues were hanging out after so much exercise of breathing . We had no chance of finding a trickle here as one so often may in the blessed Alps ...
... doubt helped us to swallow our luncheon - or was it dinner ? -a difficult matter , for our tongues were hanging out after so much exercise of breathing . We had no chance of finding a trickle here as one so often may in the blessed Alps ...
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