Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 224William Blackwood, 1928 - England |
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Graham Brown minutes chipping and scraping drove in his axe to the head , and with our ice - axes sufficed to slowly paid out the rope , as I fashion an alcove in the ice cut steps down the vertical about three feet wide and side of the ...
Graham Brown minutes chipping and scraping drove in his axe to the head , and with our ice - axes sufficed to slowly paid out the rope , as I fashion an alcove in the ice cut steps down the vertical about three feet wide and side of the ...
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I There can be no finer couloir can offer no explanation . in the Alps than this 5000 feet Glacier ice , under pressure , chute . In the middle runs an makes curious noises ; it some- enormous groove of ice 20 feet times cracks , grates ...
I There can be no finer couloir can offer no explanation . in the Alps than this 5000 feet Glacier ice , under pressure , chute . In the middle runs an makes curious noises ; it some- enormous groove of ice 20 feet times cracks , grates ...
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Not once we noted with some anxiety had we had to retrace our steps , that a 100 feet high rock face no insuperable obstacle had separated us from the upper presented itself , the curious ice slopes leading up to the final unreasoning ...
Not once we noted with some anxiety had we had to retrace our steps , that a 100 feet high rock face no insuperable obstacle had separated us from the upper presented itself , the curious ice slopes leading up to the final unreasoning ...
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