The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
From inside the book
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... hundred feet higher than where we stood , but completely shut out the view . By going a short distance to the east ... hundred or seven hundred feet ; but , having to descend over nearly ten times that vertical height 183 JOHN BALL.
... hundred feet higher than where we stood , but completely shut out the view . By going a short distance to the east ... hundred or seven hundred feet ; but , having to descend over nearly ten times that vertical height 183 JOHN BALL.
Էջ 195
... hundred feet ; then ascended directly towards the summit for about sixty feet ; and then doubled back to the ridge which descends towards Zermatt . A long stride round a rather awkward corner brought us to snow once more . The last ...
... hundred feet ; then ascended directly towards the summit for about sixty feet ; and then doubled back to the ridge which descends towards Zermatt . A long stride round a rather awkward corner brought us to snow once more . The last ...
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... hundred - and - twenty - foot length of the right Alpine rope , with the red worsted thread in its middle . It had been left in her charge by a famous pillar of the Scottish Mountaineering Club till he should come that way again . The ...
... hundred - and - twenty - foot length of the right Alpine rope , with the red worsted thread in its middle . It had been left in her charge by a famous pillar of the Scottish Mountaineering Club till he should come that way again . 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