 I have said, the continuity of the snow-slope was broken, appeared as if by magic to triple its width, that the idea of danger to ourselves flashed upon me. I now perceived that its volume was enormously greater than I had at first imagined, and that,...  The Alpine Journal - Page 3401872Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond - 1903 - 402 pages
...principal rocky ridges with which, as I have said, the continuity of the snow-slope was broken, appeared 67 as if by magic to triple its width, that the idea...whole surface of the glacier, ourselves included, with the besom of destruction. " I instinctively bolted for the rocks of the Rothstock — if haply... | |
 | Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Arnold Lunn - 1927 - 328 pages
...proceed, viz., the hanging ice cliff; but the next moment, when a huge mass of serac broke away, mingled apparently with a still larger contingent of snow...on the right between us and the rocks of the Klein 72 Eiger, dash completely across the base of the Eiger itself in front of us, attain the foot of the... | |
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