True Tales of Mountain Adventure For Non-Climbers Young and Old - Tapa blanda

Contents Include: What is Mountaineering? A Few Words about Glaciers Avalanches The Guides of the Alps An Avalanche on the Haut-De-Cry, A Race for Life Caught in an Avalanche on the Matterhorn The Ice Avalanche of the Altels An Avalanche which Robbed a Lady of a Garment Lost in the Ice for Forty Years The Most Terrible of all Alpine Tragedies A Wonderful Slide Down a Wall of Ice An Adventure on the Thrift Pass The Perils of the Moming Pass An Exciting Passage of the Col De Pilatte An Adventure on the Aletsch Glacie A Loyal Companion A Brave Guide A Wonderful Feat by Two Ladies A Perilous Climb A Fine Performance Without Guides The Piz Scerscen Twice in Four Days The First Ascent Of a Mont Blanc by a Woman The Ascent of a Wall of Ice The Aiguille Du Dru The Most Famous Mountain in the Alps The Conquest of the Matterhorn The Whole Duty of the Climber Alpine Distress Signals