 ... base about ten feet wide, narrowing to two feet at the top. We climbed to the base of this spire of ice, and, with the utmost care, began to cut our stairway. The material was an exceedingly compacted snow, passing into clear ice as it neared the...  The Alpine Journal - Page 3911872Full view - About this book
 | Clarence King - 1872 - 342 pages
...crevice, and rose in a long point to the summit of the wall, — a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff, — its base about ten feet wide,...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 246 pages
...crevasse, and rose in a long point to the summit of the wall, — a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff, — its base about ten feet wide,...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
 | George Iles - 1902 - 206 pages
...crevice, and rose in a long point to the summit of the wall, — a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff, — its base about ten feet wide,...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we bo thrown cither down the snow-slope... | |
 | 1902 - 532 pages
...long point to the summit of the wall —a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff—its base about ten feet wide, narrowing to two feet at...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
 | Edgar Beecher Bronson - 1910 - 392 pages
...frozen in a niche of the bluff — its base about ten feet wide, narrowing to two feet at the top. . . . We climbed the first half of it with comparative ease;...almost vertical, and so thin that we did not dare cut the footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. . . . At last, in order to prevent myself... | |
 | George Wharton James - 1914 - 632 pages
...crevice, and rose in a long point to the summit of the wall, — a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff, — its base about ten feet wide,...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
 | GEORGE WHARTON JAMES - 1914 - 706 pages
...crevice, and rose in a long point to the summit of the wall, — a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff, — its base about ten feet wide,...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
 | 1871 - 892 pages
...crevasse, and rose in a long point to the summit of the wall, — a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff, — its base about ten feet wide,...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - 2003 - 588 pages
...long point to the summit of the wall,—a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff,—its base about ten feet wide, narrowing to two feet at...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - 2005 - 580 pages
...long point to the summit of the wall,—a great icicle-column frozen in a niche of the bluff,—its base about ten feet wide, narrowing to two feet at...footsteps deep enough to make them absolutely safe. There was a constant dread lest our ladder should break off, and we be thrown either down the snow-slope... | |
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