 I got ready for the climb. I have said the Mur de la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you begin to ascend it obliquely, there is nothing below but...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 481852Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1865 - 202 páginas
...de la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you begin to ascend it, there is nothing below but a chasm in the ice more frightful than anything yet passed. Should the foot... | |
 | 1852 - 638 páginas
...de la Cotu is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...more frightful than anything yet passed. Should the font slip, or the baton give way, there is no chance for life — you would glide like lightning from... | |
 | David Bogue - 1852 - 416 páginas
...de la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all-but-perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...slip, or the baton give way, there is no chance for life—you would glide like lightning from one frozen crag to another, and finally be dashed to pieces,... | |
 | James Grant - 1852 - 390 páginas
...de la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...obliquely, there is nothing below but a chasm in the ice mote frightful than anything yet passed. Should the foot slip, or the baton give way, there is no chance... | |
 | 1853 - 454 páginas
...de la Côte is some hundred feet high^ and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one paint you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...the ice, more frightful than anything yet passed. Of course every footstep had to be cut with the adzes ; and my blood ran cooler still, as I saw the... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 páginas
...dc la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...the ice, more frightful than anything yet passed. Of course even- footstep had to be cut with the adzes ; and my blood ran cooler still, as I saw the... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 páginas
...de la Côte is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...to ascend it obliquely there is nothing below but a chnsm in the ice, more frightful than anything yet passed. Of course every footstep had to be cut with... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - 1857 - 284 páginas
...de la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...the ice, more frightful than anything yet passed. Of course every footstep had to be cut with the adzes ; and my blood ran cooler still, as I saw the... | |
 | Albert Richard Smith - 1871 - 424 páginas
...de la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...anything yet passed. Should the foot slip, or the the baton give SCALINO THE MUR DE LA COTE. way, there is no chance for life — you would glide like... | |
 | 1876 - 588 páginas
...de la Cote is some hundred feet high, and is an all but perpendicular iceberg. At one point you can reach it from the snow, but immediately after you...the ice, more frightful than anything yet passed. Of course every footstep had to be cut with the adzes; and my blood ran cooler still, as I saw the... | |
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