Inhaltsangabe
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. 1845. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. A WEEK AT CHAMOUNI. General description of the Valley of Chamouni--Cascade near Chamouni--The Glacier du Bossons--Mounting Ambition--The Montanvert--Resolution taken to attempt the Ascent of Mont Blanc--Conference with the "Chef" of the Guides--High Preparations--Final Arrangements--Day and Night before the Ascent--Guide's breakfast--Ascent to the Glacier--Passage of the Glacier--The Grands Mulets--Sunset and Night at the Grands Mulets--Ascent to the Grand Plateau--Inglorious Return--Questions whether the attempt was justifiable, and whether it was requited, answered--Walk to the Source of the Arveron. Here then we were, in the valley of Chamouni, to "rest and expatiate" for a week--our life apparently without the wrinkle of a care--in an atmosphere without a cloud, except when some light fleecy wreath just floated beneath a dome or pinnacle of Mont Blanc, as if in worship. Before I retrace our rambles within that enchanted region, and the risings and results of that busy ambition which stirred the tranquillity of my golden hours, I will endeavour to recall a general view of the scene--as we became acquainted with its features, by studying them with a loving industry, down to the moment when, from the Col de Balme, we gazed at it in parting. The valley of Chamouni (to compare a very great thing with a very small one) resembles in shape the half of an almond-shell, a crescent bulged out in the centre, and running almost to a point at each extremity. On my former visit I regarded it merely as the area provided by nature for the perfect exhibition of Mont Blanc; and such is its great office in the economy of the majesties of the world; and to this office I still, as then, think it curiously adapted both by its positive attributes and its wants. ...
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