True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old

CONTENTS.

CHAP.		PAGE
	PREFACE	vii.
I.	WHAT IS MOUNTAINEERING?	1
II.	A FEW WORDS ABOUT GLACIERS	7
III.	AVALANCHES	15
IV.	THE GUIDES OF THE ALPS	22
V.	THE GUIDES OF THE ALPS (Continued)	50
VI.	AN AVALANCHE ON THE HAUT-DE-CRY—A RACE FOR LIFE	59
VII.	CAUGHT IN AN AVALANCHE ON THE MATTERHORN—THE ICE-AVALANCHE OF THE ALTELS—AN AVALANCHE WHICH ROBBED A LADY OF A GARMENT	72
VIII.	LOST IN THE ICE FOR FORTY YEARS	92
IX.	THE MOST TERRIBLE OF ALL ALPINE TRAGEDIES	107
X.	A WONDERFUL SLIDE DOWN A WALL OF ICE	113
XI.	AN ADVENTURE ON THE TRIFT PASS—THE PERILS OF THE MOMING PASS	122
XII.	AN EXCITING PASSAGE OF THE COL DE PILATTE	134
XIII.	AN ADVENTURE ON THE ALETSCH GLACIER—A LOYAL COMPANION—A BRAVE GUIDE	142
XIV.	A WONDERFUL FEAT BY TWO LADIES—A PERILOUS CLIMB	153
XV.	A FINE PERFORMANCE WITHOUT GUIDES	170
XVI.	THE PIZ SCERSCEN TWICE IN FOUR DAYS—THE FIRST ASCENT BY A WOMAN OF MONT BLANC	194
XVII.	THE ASCENT OF A WALL OF ICE	208
XVIII.	THE AIGUILLE DU DRU	221
XIX.	THE MOST FAMOUS MOUNTAIN IN THE ALPS—THE CONQUEST OF THE MATTERHORN	250
XX.	SOME TRAGEDIES ON THE MATTERHORN	268
XXI.	THE WHOLE DUTY OF THE CLIMBER—ALPINE DISTRESS SIGNALS	289
	GLOSSARY	293
	INDEX	295

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