The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
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... Hold them , ye hands , The rough of granite and the stinging rain . Earth stores them on hill - slope , Cleansing and clasp of hope , To cheer your age again Groping in darkness through the last grey lands : Hold them for strength ...
... Hold them , ye hands , The rough of granite and the stinging rain . Earth stores them on hill - slope , Cleansing and clasp of hope , To cheer your age again Groping in darkness through the last grey lands : Hold them for strength ...
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... holds was no easy matter . From this vantage point the overhang could be breasted . The next stretch turned , it seemed to us later , upon one rather rounded hold . Hand , knee and then foot it served , while the fingers found only ...
... holds was no easy matter . From this vantage point the overhang could be breasted . The next stretch turned , it seemed to us later , upon one rather rounded hold . Hand , knee and then foot it served , while the fingers found only ...
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... hold his ground if a slip occurred . A few minutes later , a sharp - eyed lad ran into the Monte Rosa hotel , to Seiler , saying that he had seen an avalanche fall from the summit of the Matterhorn on to the Matterhorngletscher . The ...
... hold his ground if a slip occurred . A few minutes later , a sharp - eyed lad ran into the Monte Rosa hotel , to Seiler , saying that he had seen an avalanche fall from the summit of the Matterhorn on to the Matterhorngletscher . 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