The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
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... looked : just enough in it to loosen your muscles and make you want more . Higher up , the gully grew shallow and ... looked closely , were not utterly smooth . On the right wall , as we looked up , certain small wrinkles , bunions , and ...
... looked : just enough in it to loosen your muscles and make you want more . Higher up , the gully grew shallow and ... looked closely , were not utterly smooth . On the right wall , as we looked up , certain small wrinkles , bunions , and ...
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... looked up . Josef was in the throes of a last daring inspiration . He whipped his axe upward , balanced himself auda- ciously outward , and with lightning speed wedged the point of the axe - shaft into the crack above the bulge of the ...
... looked up . Josef was in the throes of a last daring inspiration . He whipped his axe upward , balanced himself auda- ciously outward , and with lightning speed wedged the point of the axe - shaft into the crack above the bulge of the ...
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... looked down with a backward , un- comfortable glance , to see Porter in the most work- manlike fashion belaying the rope round his axe in which neither of us felt security . I positively disliked him for his imperturbability . Still ...
... looked down with a backward , un- comfortable glance , to see Porter in the most work- manlike fashion belaying the rope round his axe in which neither of us felt security . I positively disliked him for his imperturbability . Still ...
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