The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 pages |
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... Mount Everest Committee for ' Mount Everest ' and ' The Kama Valley ' by George Leigh - Mallory from Mount Everest , The Reconnaissance , 1921 ; ' A Slip on Everest , ' ' A Start , ' ' Apathy , ' ' The Satisfaction of Defeat , ' and the ...
... Mount Everest Committee for ' Mount Everest ' and ' The Kama Valley ' by George Leigh - Mallory from Mount Everest , The Reconnaissance , 1921 ; ' A Slip on Everest , ' ' A Start , ' ' Apathy , ' ' The Satisfaction of Defeat , ' and the ...
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... Mount Everest ? GEORGE LEIGH - MALLORY , The Assault on Mount Everest , 1922 . A PASSING MOOD I sometimes think of this expedition as a fraud from beginning to end invented by the wild enthusiasm of one man - Younghusband , puffed up by ...
... Mount Everest ? GEORGE LEIGH - MALLORY , The Assault on Mount Everest , 1922 . A PASSING MOOD I sometimes think of this expedition as a fraud from beginning to end invented by the wild enthusiasm of one man - Younghusband , puffed up by ...
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... Mount Everest no doubt helped us to swallow our luncheon - or was it dinner ? -a difficult matter , for our tongues were hanging out after so much exercise of breathing . We had no chance of finding a trickle here as one so often may in ...
... Mount Everest no doubt helped us to swallow our luncheon - or was it dinner ? -a difficult matter , for our tongues were hanging out after so much exercise of breathing . We had no chance of finding a trickle here as one so often may in ...
Common terms and phrases
A. D. GODLEY admiration Alpine Journal Alps altitude arête ascent beauty beneath bergschrund cliffs climbers climbing clouds club cold couloir crag crevasses deep delight Dent Blanche Dent d'Hérens descend difficult distance doubt dragons Everest eyes F. S. Smythe F. W. BOURDILLON face feeling foot GEOFFREY WINTHROP YOUNG GEORGE LEIGH-MALLORY glacier guides gully hand height hills human J. A. Symonds ledge less lives look Matterhorn mind Mont Blanc morning moun Mount Mount Everest mountain nature never night once ourselves overhanging passed path peaks perhaps pleasure Pointe Blanche Pralong precipices reached rest ridge rise rock rope round route scenery Scheuchzer seemed sense side sight slopes snow Snowdon soul spirit steep step stone stood strong summit tains things thought traveller valley walk wall whole wind