Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges |
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Alpine Alps amongst arête ascent Askole Astor Astor valley Baltoro glacier beautiful Bruce Bunar camp Chilas Chitral cliffs climber climbing clouds colour coolies dark descend Diama Diamirai glacier Diamirai nullah difficulty district exploration face feet high Fjord ghyll Gilgit Goman Singh gully Hastings head height hills Himalaya hundred Indus Kabru Kanchenjunga Kashmir Kicking Horse pass lakes land ledge Loch Lofoten Islands look Lor Khan Lubar Mazeno miles mists Mont Blanc morning moun Mount Mount Forbes Mummery Mustagh range Nanda Devi Nanga Parbat Nepaul never night once overhanging peak perhaps perpendicular pine pinnacles places ponies precipices Ragobir reached rib of rocks ridge river rope route Rupal glacier Rupal nullah scenery seen Sgurr shikari side Sikkim Skye slabs snow snow-fields steep stones streams stretched summit tains Tashing traverse valley wander Wastdale weather whilst wild wind
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Page 249 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Page 265 - A land of old upheaven from the abyss By fire, to sink into the abyss again ; Where fragments of forgotten peoples dwelt, And the long mountains ended in a coast Of ever-shifting sand, and far away The phantom circle of a moaning sea.
Page 166 - Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save from one gradual solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave...
Page 186 - The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara...
Page 134 - At midnight The moon arose : and lo ! the ethereal cliffs Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the stars like sunlight, and around Whose caverned base the whirlpools and the waves Bursting and eddying irresistibly Rage and resound for ever.
Page 53 - Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, " if it was so, it might be ; and if it were so, it would be : but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Page 139 - And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land : far off, three mountain-tops...
Page 267 - Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease, Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging, and present Times past, what once I was, and what am now.
Page 186 - One show'd an iron coast and angry waves. You seem'd to hear them climb and fall And roar rock-thwarted under bellowing caves, Beneath the windy wall.
Page 225 - And of these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars...