Download or read book Above the Snow Line Mountaineering Sketches Between 1870 and 1880 written by Clinton Thomas Dent and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Above the Snow Line Mountaineering Sketches Between 1870 and 1880 written by C. T. Dent and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Above the Snow Line' is a collection of thrilling mountaineering sketches by C.T. Dent, chronicling his expeditions between 1870 and 1880. From the ascent of the Balfrinhorn to the Aiguille du Dru, Dent takes readers on a journey through the Alps, offering vivid descriptions of the landscape and the challenges of mountaineering. With anecdotes about fellow climbers and humorous observations on the hotel staff, 'Above the Snow Line' is an engaging and insightful read. In addition to recounting his own experiences, Dent reflects on the growth and spread of the climbing craze, and offers his thoughts on the future of mountaineering. This timeless classic is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of mountaineering and the allure of the Alps.

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Download or read book Above the Snow Line written by Clinton Dent and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN the old days books on the Alps used to be written by men who had perhaps not scaled a very large number of high peaks, but who had fallen under the spell of the great hills (being true mountain lovers and not peak hunters), and who tried as far as they could to express it in words. But of late years Alpine books (with a few rare and brilliant exceptions, which will occur to everyone) have come from the pens of those who know the outward aspect of the Alps far better than their predecessors, but who seem deaf and blind to all else concerning them. Perhaps this is because familiarity breeds contempt; perhaps (and we are inclined to think that this is the true reason) the number of mountain lovers is much smaller in proportion to that of mountain climbers than was formerly the case. It is therefore with very great pleasure that we welcome Mr. Dent's book. Mr. Dent has hitherto been known to the world as a daring and successful mountain climber; by this book he has won for himself an honourable place in the far narrower circle of mountain lovers. 'Above the Snow Line" is perhaps the most successful, certainly one of the most successful, attempts to render into words the true delights of climbing that we have met with in the course of a tolerably wide course of reading in Alpine literature. Mr. Dent often succeeds in putting into words what many before him have tried in vain to express; now and then he contrives to call up and revive a fleeting and shadowy fancy which we had fruitlessly sought to fix and retain. It is very probable, however, that many will turn to this book in hopes of finding in it accounts of stirring adventures by rock and snow rather than an analysis of the fascination of Alpine climbing. And we can promise Mr. Dent's readers that they will not be disappointed, for the book contains some very vivid sketches of ascents and mishaps, though happily none of these last are of a very serious kind. We climb with Mr. Dent up the Balfrinhorn, the Südlenzspitz, the Portienhorn in the Saas valley. It is with a certain feeling of wonderment that we read of the first ascent of the Moming Rothhorn from Zermatt in 1872, a route so often trodden since that one is inclined to think that it must have been known from the beginning of things. The ascent of the Ruinette is, on the other hand, far more novel, but why will Mr. Dent persist in speaking of it as a 'little peak' in 'the Alpine midlands, ' when it attains the very respectable height of 12,728 feet? The successful crossing of the Bietschhorn and the unsuccessful crossing of the Aiguille du Midi (though here Mr. Dent's failure was practically a victory) give occasion for two very vigorous bits of description, the descent to Ried in rain and darkness, and the storm on the Chamonix face of the Midi.... --The Alpine Journal, Volume 1

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Download or read book Above the Snow Line written by Clinton Dent and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: e, as a well-known writer has remarked. The account, though a sort of literary congenital cripple, has still a prescriptive right to live. Besides this expedition was undertaken in the pre-Sybaritic age of mountaineering, and before the later refinements of that art and science had taken firm hold of its votaries. What would the stern explorers of former time have thought, or said, if they had perceived persons engaged on the glaciers sitting down on camp-stools to a light refection of truffle pie and cold punch? Such banquets are not uncommon now, though precisians with a tendency to dyspepsia still object strongly to them. In those days, too, mountaineers were not so much differentiated that climbers were talked of by their fellows like cricketers are described in the book of Lillywhite. "Jones," for instance, "is a brilliant cragsman, but inclined to be careless on moraines." "Noakes," again, "remarkably sure and steady on snow, fairly good in a couloir, would do better if he did not possess such an astoun Read More

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