LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Melchior Anderegg, 1894[Frontispiece]
Climbers Descending the Ortler[2]
The Aletsch Glacier from Bel Alp[7]
General View of a Glacier[8]
A Glacier Table: after a Storm[11]
A Crevassed Glacier[13]
An Avalanche near Bouveret: a Tunnel through anAvalanche[17]
Edouard Cupelin[22]
Descending a Rock Peak near Zermatt[31]
A Big Crevasse: the Gentle Persuasion of the Rope[37]
A Typical Couloir: the Ober Gabelhorn: the WrongWay to Descend: Very Soft Snow[42]
Piz Palü: Hans and Christian Grass[44]
Christian Almer, 1894[54]
An Avalanche Falling[59]
Eiger and Mönch from Lauberhorn[66]
Avalanche Falling from the Wetterhorn[79]
On Monte Rosa[83]
Mr Whymper: Mrs Aubrey Le Blond: Group on aHigh Peak in Winter[85]
Mrs Aubrey Le Blond and Joseph Imboden: Crossinga Snow Couloir[89]
Mont Blanc: Nicolas Winhart: a Banker of Geneva:the Relics of the Arkwright Accident[92]
Alpine Snow-Fields[108]
A Start by Moonlight: Shadows at Sunrise: a StandingGlissade: a Sitting Glissade[136]
On a Snow-Covered Glacier[148]
Martin Schocher and Schnitzler[150]
Exterior of a Climber's Hut: Interior[157]
The Meije: Ascending a Snowy Wall[171]
Top of Piz Scerscen: Party Descending Piz Bernina:On a Mountain Top: Descent of a Snow-Ridge[194]
Hard Work: Setting Out in a Long Skirt[204]
A Steep Icy Slope: On the Top of a Pass[216]
A Slab of Rock: Negotiating a Steep Passage[225]
The Family of Herr Seiler, Zermatt: Going to Zermattin the Olden Days[250]
The Guides' Wall, Zermatt[259]
The Zermatt Side of the Matterhorn: Rising Mists[260]
A Bitterly Cold Day: The Matterhorn from the Zmutt Side[265]
Jost, Porter of Hotel Monte Rosa, Zermatt[268]
Hoar Frost in the Alps[274]