True Tales of Mountain Adventure
by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond
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About this eBook
- Author
- Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs., 1861-1934
- Title
- True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old
- Credits
- Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DQ: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Switzerland
- Subject
- Alps -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42758
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42758
- Release Date
- May 21, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TRUE TALES OF MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.ERRATA
- 6.CHAPTER I WHAT IS MOUNTAINEERING?
- 7.CHAPTER II A FEW WORDS ABOUT GLACIERS
- 8.CHAPTER III AVALANCHES
- 9.CHAPTER IV THE GUIDES OF THE ALPS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO
- 10.CHAPTER V THE GUIDES OF THE ALPS—( continued ).
- 11.CHAPTER VI AN AVALANCHE ON THE HAUT-DE-CRY
- 12.CHAPTER VII CAUGHT IN AN AVALANCHE ON THE MATTERHORN
- 13.CHAPTER VIII LOST IN THE ICE FOR FORTY YEARS
- 14.CHAPTER IX THE MOST TERRIBLE OF ALL ALPINE TRAGEDIES
- 15.CHAPTER X A WONDERFUL SLIDE DOWN A WALL OF ICE
- 16.CHAPTER XI AN ADVENTURE ON THE TRIFT PASS
- 17.CHAPTER XII AN EXCITING PASSAGE OF THE COL DE PILATTE
- 18.CHAPTER XIII AN ADVENTURE ON THE ALETSCH GLACIER
- 19.CHAPTER XIV A WONDERFUL FEAT BY TWO LADIES
- 20.CHAPTER XV A FINE PERFORMANCE WITHOUT GUIDES
- 21.CHAPTER XVI THE PIZ SCERSCEN TWICE IN FOUR DAYS—THE FIRST ASCENT OF MONT BLANC BY A WOMAN.
- 22.CHAPTER XVII THE ASCENT OF A WALL OF ICE
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII THE AIGUILLE DU DRU
- 24.CHAPTER XIX THE MOST FAMOUS MOUNTAIN IN THE ALPS—THE CONQUEST OF THE MATTERHORN
- 25.CHAPTER XX SOME TRAGEDIES ON THE MATTERHORN
- 26.CHAPTER XXI THE WHOLE DUTY OF THE CLIMBER—ALPINE DISTRESS SIGNALS
- 27.GLOSSARY AND INDEX
- 28.GLOSSARY.
- 29.FOOTNOTES
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