Blackwood's Magazine, Том 224W. Blackwood, 1928 |
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... wall of rock and ice , which rises in a final sweep of 5300 feet at an average angle of over 50 ° from the upper basin of the Brenva Glacier . Many were those who had gazed upon it from the well- known tourist highway of the Col du ...
... wall of rock and ice , which rises in a final sweep of 5300 feet at an average angle of over 50 ° from the upper basin of the Brenva Glacier . Many were those who had gazed upon it from the well- known tourist highway of the Col du ...
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... and imagina- tion would be brought to a dead stop against the final ice wall defending the summit of Mont Blanc . To reach it , after per- haps two days of difficult and exacting climbing , and 4 [ July The Red Sentinel of Mont Blanc . 66.
... and imagina- tion would be brought to a dead stop against the final ice wall defending the summit of Mont Blanc . To reach it , after per- haps two days of difficult and exacting climbing , and 4 [ July The Red Sentinel of Mont Blanc . 66.
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... wall is breached . In order to reach the bending ridge we must traverse across the foot of the right - hand branch couloir to the lower Could the 200 feet high ice extremity of the bending ridge . wall running across the brow Thence it ...
... wall is breached . In order to reach the bending ridge we must traverse across the foot of the right - hand branch couloir to the lower Could the 200 feet high ice extremity of the bending ridge . wall running across the brow Thence it ...
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... wall of Mont Blanc sweeping round to the Col de la Brenva . How cold and repel- ling it looked when the sun had left it , and the fear of it sank into both of us . Had one of us weakened then , the reso- lution of both would have failed ...
... wall of Mont Blanc sweeping round to the Col de la Brenva . How cold and repel- ling it looked when the sun had left it , and the fear of it sank into both of us . Had one of us weakened then , the reso- lution of both would have failed ...
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... walls above . Two routes to the foot of it appeared possible . The first , by an upward traverse from the little col at ... wall of ice , perhaps sixty feet high , artfully overlaid with slushy snow . It was cold work for the leader ; at ...
... walls above . Two routes to the foot of it appeared possible . The first , by an upward traverse from the little col at ... wall of ice , perhaps sixty feet high , artfully overlaid with slushy snow . It was cold work for the leader ; at ...
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Aboyne Anstey asked bear Blakhal boat Bolsheretsk Brahmins Brenva cannery Captain CCXXIV.-NO climb Col du Géant couloir Courmayeur course Craven dark door England eyes face feet fish followed gave Glacier Graham Brown hand head heard Henry Davies hills India Indian ispravnik Japanese Joe Ball Jolie Brise Jukes Kamchadal Kamchatka king salmon knew Lady land light looked Lord Marfa Margaret Craven ment miles mind Mont Blanc morning mountains Murashka never night once Ozernoi party passed realised replied ridge river rock round sail salmon seemed sent ship shot side Skipper smile snow Solovieff soon starosta stone stood talk tell thing thought tiger tion told took turned village Vishnevsky vodka walked watch wind yards Yéléna Zakhari
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