Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 — John Shaqi
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69Whymper, Edward
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Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69
Whymper, Edward
Alps -- Description and travel; Mountaineering -- Alps -- History -- 19th century; Mountaineers -- Biography; Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
Beachy Head
The Devil of Notre Dame
Mules
A Curé in Difficulties
Which is the Brute?
At the St. Bernard
“Garibaldi!”
Briançon
Mont Pelvoux from above La Bessée
In the Val d’Alefred
The Grand Pelvoux de Val Louise
Buttresses of Mont Pelvoux
Portrait of R.J.S. Macdonald
Outline to Show Route up Mont Pelvoux
The Blanket Bag
Natural Pillar near Molines
Crossing Mont Cenis
The Little Postilion
The Centre Rail on a Curve
Section of the Fell Railway
The Covered Ways of the Fell Railway
The Centre Rail Break
The Matterhorn from the north-east
Portrait of J.J. Bennen
Portrait of Jean-Antoine Carrel
The Col du Lion: Looking towards the Tête du Lion
Diagram to show manner of fastening Tent-poles
Alpine Tent
Climbing Claw
Rope and Ring
At Breil (Giomein)
The Matterhorn from Breil
“But what is this?”
An Arch of the Aqueduct in the Val Tournanche
Water-worn Rocks in the Gorge below the Gorner Glacier
Striations produced by Glacier action
“Carrel lowered me down”
Portrait of Monsieur Favre
Crossing the Channel
Portrait of Michel-Auguste Croz
The Aiguilles d’Arve from above Chalets of Rieu Blanc
Portrait of Melchior Anderegg
Map of the Brèche de la Meije, etc.
The Vallon des Etançons
Map of the Central Dauphiné Alps
The Pointe des Ecrins from the Col du Galibier
Outline to show Route up Pointe des Ecrins
Fragment from the Summit of the Pointe des Ecrins
A Night with Croz
A Snow Couloir
Portraits of Mr. Reilly on a wet day
Our Camp on Mont Suc
Ice-Avalanche on the Moming Pass
Part of the Southern Ridge of the Grand Cornier
Part of the Northern Ridge of the Grand Cornier
Portrait of Leslie Stephen
Portrait of T.S. Kennedy
Diagrams to show Dip of Strata on the Matterhorn
My Tent-bearer—The Hunchback
The Bouquetin
A Crétin of Aosta
My Ice-axe
Kennedy Ice-axe
Crampon
Portrait of Christian Almer
On the Mer de Glace
Ice-Pinnacles on the Mer de Glace
Western Side of the Col de Talèfre
Glissading
The Wrong Way to use a Rope on Glacier
The Right Way to use a Rope on Glacier
“Croz! Croz!! Come here”
The Summit of the Matterhorn
The Actual Summit of the Matterhorn in 1865
Rope broken on the Matterhorn
Portrait of Monsieur Seiler
Manilla Rope broken on the Matterhorn
The “Second” Rope broken on the Matterhorn
The End
PREFACE.
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