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1.Point of Alpenstock[vii]
2.Birmingham Pick-axe with moveable head[viii]
3.Russian Furnace[viii]
4.Cooking Tins[ix]
5.Snow Spectacles[x]
6.Arctic Cap[xi]
7.The Complete Disguise[xi]
8.Beachy Head[1]
9.The Devil of Notre Dame[2]
10.The Church in Difficulties[5]
11.At the St. Bernard[6]
12.The Village of Biona[7]
13.Crossing Mont Cenis[9]
14.“Garibaldi!”[10]
15.A Bit of the Village of Zermatt[12]
16.Briançon[13]
17.Mont Pelvoux from above La Bessée[19]
18.The Grand Pelvoux de Val Louise[21]
19.Buttresses of Mont Pelvoux[26]
20.Portrait of the late R. J. S. Macdonald[29]
21.Outline to show Route up Mont Pelvoux[31]
22.The Blanket Bag[38]
23.Natural Pillar near Molines[40]
24.Portrait of the late J. J. Bennen[48]
25.Portrait of Jean-Antoine Carrel[51]
26.The Col du Lion: looking towards the Tête du Lion[53]
27.Diagram to show manner of fastening Tent-poles[62]
28.The Author’s Mountain Tent[62]
29.Climbing Claw[72]
30.Rope and Ring[73]
31.At Breil (Giomein)[79]
32.The Matterhorn from Breil[85]
33.“But what is this?”[88]
34.An Arch of the Aqueduct in the Val Tournanche[92]
35.Water-worn Rocks in the Gorge below the Gorner Glacier[96]
36.Striations produced by Glacier-action[97]
37.Chamois in Difficulties[102]
38.“Carrel lowered me down”[108]
39.Portrait of the late Canon Carrel of Aosta[109]
40.Portrait of Monsieur Favre[121]
41.Crossing the Channel[123]
42.Portrait of the late Michel-Auguste Croz[125]
43.Plan to show Route[128]
44.The Aiguilles d’Arve, from above the Chalets of Rieu Blanc[130]
45.Portrait of Melchior Anderegg[138]
46.Map of the Brèche de la Meije, etc.[140]
47.Diagram to show Angle of Summit of Meije, etc.[142]
48.The Vallon des Etançons[143]
49.Map of the Central Dauphiné Alps[146]
50.The Pointe des Ecrins from the Col du Galibier[155]
51.Outline to show Route up Pointe des Ecrins[156]
52.Fragment from the Summit of the Pointe des Ecrins[159]
53.A Night with Croz[164]
54.A Snow Couloir[169]
55.Portraits of Mr. Reilly on a wet Day[184]
56.Our Camp on Mont Suc[185]
57.Ice-Avalanche on the Moming Pass[198]
58.Summit of the Moming Pass[200]
59.Facsimile of a Letter From Croz[208]
60.Part of the Southern Ridge of the Grand Cornier[210]
61.Part of the Northern Ridge of the Grand Cornier[211]
62.Portrait of Leslie Stephen[215]
63.The Bergschrund on the Dent Blanche[217]
64.Portrait of T. S. Kennedy[222]
65.Diagrams to Show Dip of Strata on the Matterhorn[229]
66.My Tent-bearer—The Hunchback[234]
67.The Grandes Jorasses and the Doire Torrent[237]
68.The Summit of the Col Dolent[241]
69.My Ice-axe[243]
70.Kennedy Ice-axe[244]
71.Leslie Stephen Ice-axe[244]
72.Crampon[245]
73.Portrait of Christian Almer[248]
74.On the Mer de Glace[249]
75.Western Side of the Col de Talèfre[255]
76.Glissading[257]
77.The Wrong Way to use a Rope on Glacier[263]
78.The Right Way to use a Rope on Glacier[264]
79.“Croz! Croz!! Come Here!”[279]
80.The Summit of the Matterhorn in 1865[281]
81.The Actual Summit of the Matterhorn[284]
82.Rope broken on the Matterhorn[287]
83.Diagram of Fog-bow[289]
84.Portrait of Monsieur Alex. Seiler[290]
85.The Manilla Rope broken on the Matterhorn[292]
86.The “Second” Rope broken on the Matterhorn[293]
87.The English Church at Zermatt[294]
88.The End[298]
89.The Chapel at the Schwarzsee[310]
90.The Summit of the Matterhorn in 1874 (Northern End)[311]
91.“The things which tumble about the ears of unwary travellers”[325]

MAPS.

To be placed at the end of the Volume.

[1.] The Matterhorn and its Glaciers (in colours).

[2.] The Valley of Zermatt; and the Central Pennine Alps.

The body of the work has been printed by Messrs. William Clowes and Sons; and the separate Plates have been printed by the Author.

THE ASCENT OF THE MATTERHORN