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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... to the Pierre & l'Echelle mounts. The earth round the walls had been washed away by the heavy rains, and the only way onwards was through the chalet itself; an arrangement, no doubt, convenient for its owner, who did not seem in a hurry to make good the path. It has been built by a speculating native, in the hope that the profits of the next nine years will more than cover the cost of its construction, and of the muleroad that has been made up to it: at the end of that period the whole property will revert to the Commune. The man certainly deserves patronage, for the view of the ice-fall of the Boissons from this point is very fine, and would quite repay anyone for the climb, especially now that the lower part of the glacier has lost so much of its former beauty. Should the mule-path be continued from here to the Plan des Aiguilles, it would make a charming excursion for ladies; for the points of view of Mont Blanc on this side of the valley, although less panoramic, are quite as beautiful in their way as the better-known ones of Planpraz and the Flegere, while the strange pinnacles of the Chamonix Aiguilles are nowhere seen to such advantage. My guides had arranged to get the heavier part of our provisions here; and while they were being packed, I watched anxiously the heavy clouds which were creeping up over the hills beyond Sallenches. After a delay of about half-an-hour, we were again en route, and mounted by a rough and rather steep path skirting the glacier to the Pierre a l'Echelle--a little plain lying under the cliffs of the Aiguille du Midi, where the Chemin de Mont Blanc leaves terra firma, and enters upon the ice-world. Under one of the large boulders which abound in this spot, the ladder used in crossing the Glacier de Boissons was formerly ke...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235860171
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235860175
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr

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