The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 pages |
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... beauty of all scenery in exact proportion to its mountainous character , providing that character be healthily mountainous . I do not mean to take the Col de Bonhomme as representative of hills , any more than I would take Romney Marsh ...
... beauty of all scenery in exact proportion to its mountainous character , providing that character be healthily mountainous . I do not mean to take the Col de Bonhomme as representative of hills , any more than I would take Romney Marsh ...
Page 70
... beauty . He looks straight before him , watch in hand . ' Two hours , fourteen minutes , forty seconds , ' he cries in triumph as he hastens by . An anxious moment for us , who took four hours ! Is this a herald of disaster in the ...
... beauty . He looks straight before him , watch in hand . ' Two hours , fourteen minutes , forty seconds , ' he cries in triumph as he hastens by . An anxious moment for us , who took four hours ! Is this a herald of disaster in the ...
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... beauty . But I ask you , gentlemen , to clear your minds of cant - to examine your conclusions and your premises ( I do not mean necessarily the club premises ) and then to show for the public's satisfaction to what canons of beauty so ...
... beauty . But I ask you , gentlemen , to clear your minds of cant - to examine your conclusions and your premises ( I do not mean necessarily the club premises ) and then to show for the public's satisfaction to what canons of beauty so ...
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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