This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...began where we turned up off the Miage on to the base of Mont Blanc, scaling the chaos of hanging broken ice that is the Mont Blanc glacier. Some of the ice rapids were highly elaborated and ingenious, and Josef and I, who were wearing eight-point ice-claws, had all we could do to keep pace safely with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...began where we turned up off the Miage on to the base of Mont Blanc, scaling the chaos of hanging broken ice that is the Mont Blanc glacier. Some of the ice rapids were highly elaborated and ingenious, and Josef and I, who were wearing eight-point ice-claws, had all we could do to keep pace safely with the Courmayeur ice experts on their great ten-point irons. The Quintino hut, poised above the brink of the glacier fall, clings sensationally on to a bracket of big rocks some ten thousand feet up the western flank of Mont Blanc. It is impressively high and solitary. It is also seldom used, and I recollect some labour in scraping out old wet straw from the sleeping bunk, although, happily, some predecessors that year had reduced the internal accumulations of ice. A drizzle of cold rain that froze as it fell attended our meal. Nevertheless, upon the tangle of pointed and tumbled needles to which the hut is moored, the Doctor, whose gymnastic suppleness and endurance were miraculous for his years, treated us to a twilight exhibition of straight-arm balances, hock-swings-off, rising suns, and the like echoes of our youth. The sun set opposite to us, over France. The level red rays reached at us round the interrupting western Aiguilles beyond the Miage glacier, and heaped the thin moist air about us into waves and flushes of agitated colour, that contrasted strangely with the still white silence and the underlying dead white chill. The colour did not fade; it went out, suddenly, behind the dark and ice-blue screen of the Aiguilles de Trelatete. A blanket of dank grey mist muffled us up with night--the first bad omen of our season. If this lasted over midnight, we could not attempt our climb the next day. For, apart from other considerations of...
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