The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
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... wall . A rope comes slithering down the wall with slow snake- like motion . It hangs straight and forces us from our holds upon the wall , while the mists that have risen to our level heave gently beneath our feet and make a moving ...
... wall . A rope comes slithering down the wall with slow snake- like motion . It hangs straight and forces us from our holds upon the wall , while the mists that have risen to our level heave gently beneath our feet and make a moving ...
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... wall should offer a sufficiently firm place for my companions , the thing can be done for certain . ' I set to work shortly after 7 a.m. The first forty feet up to the niche ( according to Rydzewski , ten to fifteen feet ! ) required a ...
... wall should offer a sufficiently firm place for my companions , the thing can be done for certain . ' I set to work shortly after 7 a.m. The first forty feet up to the niche ( according to Rydzewski , ten to fifteen feet ! ) required a ...
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... 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 ...
... 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