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One of them advocates living dangerously and assumes mountain - climbing to be such a fascinating game that men are justified in staking their lives on the issue of it . The other theory approves the mechanisation of climbing , with the ...
One of them advocates living dangerously and assumes mountain - climbing to be such a fascinating game that men are justified in staking their lives on the issue of it . The other theory approves the mechanisation of climbing , with the ...
Page 15
... peak at four the next morning , and offered their company to the men of Bergamo , but the latter refused it with the scornful comment that to start four hours later would be quite early enough for a mountain like the Matterhorn .
... peak at four the next morning , and offered their company to the men of Bergamo , but the latter refused it with the scornful comment that to start four hours later would be quite early enough for a mountain like the Matterhorn .
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Their first night on the mountain was Wednesday , and their bivouac was near the gallery of the Eigerwand railway station . This is the stopping - place where the tourist trains , crawling upwards in the bowels of the mountain , pause ...
Their first night on the mountain was Wednesday , and their bivouac was near the gallery of the Eigerwand railway station . This is the stopping - place where the tourist trains , crawling upwards in the bowels of the mountain , pause ...
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