Scrambles Amongst The Alps In The Years 1860-69
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Scrambles Amongst The Alps In The Years 1860-69

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Scrambles Amongst The Alps In The Years 1860-69

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The ascent of Mont Pelvoux (including the disagreeables) was a very delightful scramble. The mountain air did not act as an emetic; the sky did not look black, instead of blue; nor did I feel tempted to throw myself over precipices. I hastened to enlarge my experience, and went to the Matterhorn. I was urged towards Mont Pelvoux by those mysterious impulses which cause men to peer into the unknown. Not only was this mountain reputed to be the highest in France, and on that account was worthy of attention, but it was the dominating point of a most picturesque district of the highest interest, which, to this day, remains almost unexplored! The Matterhorn attracted me simply by its grandeur. It was considered to be the most thoroughly inaccessible of all mountains, even by those who ought to have known better. Stimulated to make fresh exertions by one repulse after another, I returned, year after year, as I had opportunity, more and more determined to find a way up it, or to prove it to be really inaccessible

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Information

Publisher
Appleby Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781443772518
eBook ISBN
9781446549131
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
French History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. 1860: Chapter I. Introductory.
  5. 1861 Chapter II. The Ascent of Mont Pelvoux.
  6. Chapter III. The Mont Cenis Pass and the Fell Railway—the Great Tunnel Through the Alps.
  7. Chapter IV. My First Scramble on the Matterhorn.
  8. 1862 Chapter V. Renewed Attempts to Ascend the Matterhorn.
  9. 1863 Chapter VI. The Val Tournanche—the Breuiljoch—Zermatt—Ascent of the Grand Tournalin.
  10. Chapter VII. Our Sixth Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn.
  11. 1864 Chapter VIII. From St. Michel to La BĂ©rarde by the Col Des Aigs. D’arve, Col De Martignare, and the BrĂšche De La Meije.
  12. Chapter IX. The Ascent of the Pointe Des Ecrins.
  13. Chapter X. From Val Louise to La BĂ©rarde by the Col De Pilatte.
  14. Chapter XI. Passage of the Col De Triolet, and Ascents of Mont Dolent, Aiguille de TrĂ©latĂȘte, and Aiguille D’argentiĂšre.
  15. Chapter XII. The Moming Pass—Zermatt.
  16. 1865 Chapter XIII. The Ascent of the Grand Cornier.
  17. Chapter XIV. The Ascent of the Dent Blanche.
  18. Chapter XV. Lost on the Col D’hĂ©rens—Seventh Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn.
  19. Chapter XVI. On the Valley of Aosta and the Ascent of the Grandes Jurasses.
  20. Chapter XVII. The Col Dolent.
  21. Chapter XVIII. Ascent of the Aiguille Verte.
  22. Chapter XIX. The Col De TalĂšfre.
  23. Chapter XX. Ascent of the Ruinette—the Matterhorn.
  24. Chapter XXI. The Ascent of the Matterhorn.
  25. Chapter XXII. The Descent of the matterhorn.
  26. Appendix.