Those who do not cultivate it as a spectacular sport may welcome ski-ing as a means of locomotion, enabling them to go to places otherwise inaccessible, to pass swiftly and lightly over snow in which unskied bipeds would flounder up to the knees, if not over the head. What matters it to the humble novice that his course seem but shambling and shuffling to the winner of cups and breaker of records. What is that to him as he brushes over the sparkling slopes and threads the cloistral hills? He will find himself on shining plateaux bathed in hazy light and walled in the shimmering distance with ethereal ramparts. He will pass into solemn depths of forest where the winding way is edged and arched with pines that stretch on either hand into illimitable aisles. Sometimes his path will lead him to a radiant sanctuary where Nature seems taking her winter rest in undisturbed repose; no breath of wind breaks the stillness, nor note of bird, nor human footfall; the earth as he ascends is transfigured with new and strange magnificence, the heaven deepens to a diviner blue and the shadows to more mystic purple, the peaks close round and rise cathedral-like on every side: a cathedral vast and soaring, vaulted with unfathomable sky, piled and pinnacled, sculptured and wrought, beyond any architect's imagining, and clothed with light as with a garment.

INDEX

Agnas, Las, [33]
Aguagliouls, [30]
Albriz, Piz, [12]
Albula, Pass, [10]
Alv, Lej, [31]
Piz, [30]
Anglican Church, [16], [25]
Architecture, [21]
Ardez, [40]
Assa, Val d', [44]

Badrutt Park, [14]
Bears, [49]
Bernina Falls, [30]
Hospice, [31]
Houses, [31]
Pass, [31]
Val, [12], [20], [27-32]
Bevers, [11]
Val, [11]
Bishopric of Chur, [42], [43]
Bitabergo, Lago di, [25]
Bregaglia, Val, [26]
Brunies, Stefan, [52]

Calven, [33]
Campell, [15]
Camfer, [17]
Capella, [36]
Capricorn, [50]
Cavloccio, Lago di, [25]
Celerina, [12]
Chalchaign, [12]
Chamois, [50]
Charnadura Gorge, [12]
Chastè, [23]
Chesa Gregori-Gilli, [34]
Juvalta, [35]
Planta, [34]
Chiesa, [22]
Chur, [10]
Cluoza blockhouse, [53]
Val, [45], [49], [50]
Cresta, [12]
Crusch, [42]

'Diavolezza Tour,' [31]
Deer, [50]

Electricity, [18]
Eren, Piz, [11], [50]
Eschia, Val, [34]
Etruscan villages, [40]
Evolution, [55]

Fedoz, [22], [24]
Fex, Val, [22], [24]
Finstermünz Pass, [45]
Flaz, [12]
Fontana Merla, [33]
Ftan, [40]
Fuorcla, Surlej, [20]