Transcriber’s Note

The illustrations have been placed between paragraphs in the electronic text. This may result in a changed page number in comparison to the List of Illustrations.

The following changes have been made to the text:

[page 24], “fire” changed to “fir”
[page 178], “Cormayeur” changed to “Courmayeur”
[page 203], “regele” changed to “regale”, “Pernn” changed to [“Perrn”]
[page 243], “naturrally” changed to “naturally”
[page 269], opening quote added before “That”
[page 294], “crritical” changed to “critical”
[page 315], period added after “47-9”
[page 319], period added after “Andermatten”
[page 321], period added after “Taugwalder”

Variations in accentuation (“chalet”/“châlet”), hyphenation (e.g. “commonplace”/“common-place”, “midday”/“mid-day”) and spelling (“Ortler”/“Orteler”) have not been changed.