Alpine Tragedy |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Hamel Affair | 5 |
Disaster at the Col du Géant | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Aiguille Blanche Alexander Burgener Almer Alpine Club Alpine Journal Alpine Tragedy Alps arête arrived ascent August avalanche Balfour Balmat Bennen bergschrund Bionassay bivouac bodies Brantschen Breuil Brouillard caravan chalet Chamonix climb clouds Col du Géant comrades couloir Courmayeur Couttet crest crevasse Croz d'Hérens death Dent Blanche descend Dôme Edward Whymper Elliott Emile Rey English climber Evolène face fall feet Ferpècle foot Fresnay Furrer Gabbett Glacier Grands Mulets Grindelwald guides Hopkinson Imseng Jean-Antoine Carrel Johann Josef Josef-Marie Julius Kugy Jungfrau Knubel Lauterbrunnen Lochmatter Lyskamm Macugnaga Maquignaz Marinelli Matterhorn Mont Blanc Monte Rosa Montenvers morning mountain move névé night Niklaus passed peaks Peter Péteret porter precipice reached refuge rescue party rises rock rope Rottal route séracs shadow silence slope snow stones storm summit Swiss Taugwalder traverse Tyndall valley Valtournanche vanished victims wall weather Whymper wind young Zermatt Zmutt