Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 287William Blackwood, 1960 - England |
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Page 332
... Chamonix was fine and warm . After an unsettled fortnight , the sun poured into the fields and forests above the town , and gleamed on the glacial waters of the Arve , sweeping in full flood between the walled banks . The tourist ...
... Chamonix was fine and warm . After an unsettled fortnight , the sun poured into the fields and forests above the town , and gleamed on the glacial waters of the Arve , sweeping in full flood between the walled banks . The tourist ...
Page 333
... Chamonix . It was an ambitious expedition over a terrific crest of snow and rock , ten miles long . We knew that it might take more than forty - eight hours . From the high and compli- cated ridge that was so liable to bad weather , a ...
... Chamonix . It was an ambitious expedition over a terrific crest of snow and rock , ten miles long . We knew that it might take more than forty - eight hours . From the high and compli- cated ridge that was so liable to bad weather , a ...
Page 337
... Chamonix a few days earlier . He had ski'd alone from the Col de Géant , confident in his ability to get down through the icefall by the same route he had used some years before . But the glacier's structure had changed , and instead of ...
... Chamonix a few days earlier . He had ski'd alone from the Col de Géant , confident in his ability to get down through the icefall by the same route he had used some years before . But the glacier's structure had changed , and instead of ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 38 |
PATHFINDING IN THE GREAT NAFUD BY A DRUMMOND 160 | 53 |
POINTS OF VIEW BY MARTIN GREEN | 62 |
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