... left. I was thrown instantly off my feet, but was still on my knees and endeavouring to regain my footing, when, in a few seconds, the snow on our right, which was of course above us, rushed into the gap thus suddenly made, and completed the catastrophe... The Story of Mont Blanc - Page 109by Albert Smith - 1853 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pages
...the slope to my left. I was thrown instantly off my feet, but was still on my knees, and endeavouring to regain my footing, when, in a few seconds, the...exertions, and partly because the velocity of the sloping mass had subsided from its own friction. I was obliged to resign my pole in the struggle, feeling... | |
| Industrial arts - 1865 - 372 pages
...and completed tho catastrophe by burying us all at once in its mass, and hurrying us downward toward two crevasses about a furlong below us, and nearly parallel to the line of our march. Tho accumulation of snow instantly threw me backwards, and I was carried down, in spite of all my struggles.... | |
| Wonders - 1866 - 400 pages
...burying us all at once in its mass, and hurrying us downwards towards two crevasses about a furlong from us, and nearly parallel to the line of our march....the falling mass had subsided from its own friction. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. 67 I was obliged to resign my pole in the struggle, feeling it forced out of my... | |
| W. H. Le Mesurier - Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) - 1882 - 98 pages
...endeavouring to regain my footing, when, in a few seconds, the snow on our right — which, of course, was above us — rushed into the gap thus suddenly made,...because the velocity of the falling mass had subsided. I was obliged to resign my pole in the struggle, feeling it forced out of my hand. A short time afterwards... | |
| Methodist Church - 1826 - 518 pages
...slope to our left. I was thrown instantly off my feet, but was still on my knees, and endeavouring to regain my footing, when, in a few seconds, the...parallel to the line of our march. The accumulation of *nnw instantly threw me backwards, and I was carried down in spite of all my struggles. In less than... | |
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