E. LE BLOND.

67, The Drive,
Brighton, Oct. 30th, 1902.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.PAGE
PREFACE[vii.]
I.WHAT IS MOUNTAINEERING?[1]
II.A FEW WORDS ABOUT GLACIERS[7]
III.AVALANCHES[15]
IV.THE GUIDES OF THE ALPS[22]
V.THE GUIDES OF THE ALPS (Continued)[50]
VI.AN AVALANCHE ON THE HAUT-DE-CRY—A RACEFOR LIFE[59]
VII.CAUGHT IN AN AVALANCHE ON THE MATTERHORN—THEICE-AVALANCHE OF THE ALTELS—ANAVALANCHE WHICH ROBBED A LADY OF A GARMENT[72]
VIII.LOST IN THE ICE FOR FORTY YEARS[92]
IX.THE MOST TERRIBLE OF ALL ALPINE TRAGEDIES[107]
X.A WONDERFUL SLIDE DOWN A WALL OF ICE[113]
XI.AN ADVENTURE ON THE TRIFT PASS—THEPERILS OF THE MOMING PASS[122]
XII.AN EXCITING PASSAGE OF THE COL DE PILATTE[134]
XIII.AN ADVENTURE ON THE ALETSCH GLACIER—ALOYAL COMPANION—A BRAVE GUIDE[142]
XIV.A WONDERFUL FEAT BY TWO LADIES—A PERILOUS CLIMB[153]
XV.A FINE PERFORMANCE WITHOUT GUIDES[170]
XVI.THE PIZ SCERSCEN TWICE IN FOURDAYS—THE FIRST ASCENT BY A WOMAN OF MONT BLANC[194]
XVII.THE ASCENT OF A WALL OF ICE[208]
XVIII.THE AIGUILLE DU DRU[221]
XIX.THE MOST FAMOUS MOUNTAIN IN THE ALPS—THECONQUEST OF THE MATTERHORN[250]
XX.SOME TRAGEDIES ON THE MATTERHORN[268]
XXI.THE WHOLE DUTY OF THE CLIMBER—ALPINE DISTRESS SIGNALS[289]
GLOSSARY[293]
INDEX[295]

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]

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