A Walk Round Mont Blanc Etc

Author : Francis Chenevix Trench
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230427461
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book A Walk Round Mont Blanc, Etc written by Francis Chenevix Trench and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...much the addition, and the tone, of this last word. Rising early this morning I found myself thoroughly invigorated by the full Sabbath-day's rest, and with the muscular power of the limbs evidently increased by the last week's expeditions. Having half an hour to spare in the morning, I looked over a few pages of Forbes's interesting work on the glaciers and other phenomena of Switzerland, and also into the Travellers' Book, which is kept at this hotel. The attempts at wit were, as usual in these documents, of a most helpless description. The most interesting thing in it was the list of those travellers who at various times have ascended Mont Blanc. They are only twenty-nine in number; the first being in 1786; the second, that of De Saussure, was in 1787. Two females have successfully accomplished the same difficult feat; for difficult it certainly is, even for the strongest men. Danger is probable--painful fatigue is certain, and subsequent suffering is almost unavoidable. Of these two females one was Maria Paradis of Chamonix--locally called, from her accomplishment of the undertaking, Maria de Mont Blanc; the other a French lady. I was informed that they both suffered exceedingly before they reached the summit; and, regarding the Swiss heroine, the expression which I heard was, that she was carried in the men's arms to the top, "plus morte que vivante." As yet no ascent of the mountain had taken place this year; the last was that of August the 5th, 1846, the notice and description of which I extract verbatim from the Travellers' Book: --"Mr. John Woolley, of Beeston, Nottinghamshire, and of Trin. Coll. Camb., and Mr. James T. Hunt, of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, aged 19, attained the summit of Mont Blanc the 5th of August, ...