The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
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Էջ 258
... showed me his right wrist , badly swollen with the strain of one- handed step cutting . Happily the shelf was nearly completed , and , advancing once more , he was able to reach the snow ribbon with his axe . It afforded , how- ever ...
... showed me his right wrist , badly swollen with the strain of one- handed step cutting . Happily the shelf was nearly completed , and , advancing once more , he was able to reach the snow ribbon with his axe . It afforded , how- ever ...
Էջ 301
... showed as far as the eye could reach . There could be no rest or anchorage for the leader for at least a hundred feet . And , to begin with , the base of the nose was undercut . Its very beginning seemed in- accessible . Once on the tip ...
... showed as far as the eye could reach . There could be no rest or anchorage for the leader for at least a hundred feet . And , to begin with , the base of the nose was undercut . Its very beginning seemed in- accessible . Once on the tip ...
Էջ 513
... showed what it was worth . From one of the bodies which had slid and now was stopped proceeded an utterance , not in the best taste , reproaching his fate , because he must now start going up hill again when he should have been ...
... showed what it was worth . From one of the bodies which had slid and now was stopped proceeded an utterance , not in the best taste , reproaching his fate , because he must now start going up hill again when he should have been ...
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