The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 82–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
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... foot by foot ; yet all my best enjoyment would be owing to the imagination of the hills , colouring , with their far- away memories , every lowland stone and herb . The pleasant French coteau , green in the sunshine , delights me ...
... foot by foot ; yet all my best enjoyment would be owing to the imagination of the hills , colouring , with their far- away memories , every lowland stone and herb . The pleasant French coteau , green in the sunshine , delights me ...
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... foot drop ; but imagination and the view down a three - thousand - foot wall can make a far more flustersome business of it ! I might not pull myself up the rope with hands - fatal temptation ! -for that would prevent the men above from ...
... foot drop ; but imagination and the view down a three - thousand - foot wall can make a far more flustersome business of it ! I might not pull myself up the rope with hands - fatal temptation ! -for that would prevent the men above from ...
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... foot wall . Above this the ice ' eased off ' to about 70 ° , sweeping up for about two hundred feet to the foot of another sixty - foot wall of vertical ice . At the end of these three days Wieland and I were tired , so the work was ...
... foot wall . Above this the ice ' eased off ' to about 70 ° , sweeping up for about two hundred feet to the foot of another sixty - foot wall of vertical ice . At the end of these three days Wieland and I were tired , so the work was ...
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