...there is a frightful precipice, at the bottom of which, hundreds of feet below you, is that confu*ion of ice, granite blocks, stones, and dirty roaring...only when the loose ground crumbles away beneath your right foot, and you nearly slide away over the precipice — you would do so if the guide did not seize...

...at the bottom of which, hundreds of feet below you, is that confusion of ice, granite 1852.] [March, blocks, stones, and dirty roaring water, which forms...only when the loose ground crumbles away beneath your right foot, and you nearly slide away over the precipice — you would do so if the guide did not seize...

...enormous block of granite called the Pierre Pointue, and here we reunited our forces and rested awhile. Hitherto we had been on the ridge of one of the mighty...only when the loose ground crumbles away beneath your right loot, and you nearly slide away over the precipice—you would do so if the guide did not seize...

...the side of the mountain, which is all but perpendicular, the goats have worn a rude track, searcely a foot broad. On your left your shoulder rubs the...dare not look at it. It is only when the loose ground erumbles away beneath your right foot,and you nearly slide away over the precipice — you would do...

...ridge of one of the mighty buttresses of Mont Blanc, which hem in the glaciers between them : we had to cling along its side to gain the ice. This part...only when the loose ground crumbles away beneath your right foot, and you nearly slide away over the precipice — you would do so if the guide did not seize...