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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CONCLUSION. A FEW words in conclusion.1 I have more than once heard surprise expressed that cragsmen could go and spend their time in such distant fields as the Dolomites, among peaks hardly more than ten thousand feet high, of mere rock, with short ascents, and so forth, whilst close at hand we have ...
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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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CONCLUSION. A FEW words in conclusion.1 I have more than once heard surprise expressed that cragsmen could go and spend their time in such distant fields as the Dolomites, among peaks hardly more than ten thousand feet high, of mere rock, with short ascents, and so forth, whilst close at hand we have great peaks of more than thirteen thousand feet high, with splendid glaciers and magnificent walls of rock affording much greater interest, excitement, and danger to the mountaineer. Setting aside the question of height, the importance of which is very often of secondary consideration, of comparative want of glaciers, for which too, consolation may be found, and of the shortness of the ascents, which on the contrary is often an advantage rather than a drawback, I shall merely say a word as to difficulty and picturesqueness. To those climbers who say: "What impression can such small mountains as the 1 It must be remembered that the author is here addressing Italian readers. 202 Dolomites make upon us, who are accustomed to the Dauphine Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa, the Oberland peaks and the like?" I recall the words of poor Emil Zsigmondy, who was no mean authority and well understood and judged the difficulties and the pleasures of mountaineering. Neither the Bernese Oberland, he affirms, nor the environs of Zermatt can advantageously vie with the magic region of the Dolomites. They form, according to him, a genuine training-school. As in all arts the true artist believes he can never know enough, that there he always has something to learn, so with the climber of the Dolomites. They are a test of any man's powers and technical knowledge. "With what varying degrees of difficulty and with what necessary efforts," exclaims...
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Good. Quarto. A good, sound copy, but the binding is badly bumped and rubbed and there is a large accession mark to the base of the spine. 1 inch split to top of spine. rear free endpaper missing.