Wanderings Among The High Alps (1856) (Hardcover)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1858 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. A NIGHT ON THE MER DE GLACE, AND A LADY'S VISIT TO THE JARDIN. I lay on that rock where the storms have their dwelling, The birth-place of phantoms, the home of the cloud; Around it for ever deep music is swelling, The voice of the mountain wind, solemn and loud. Mrs. Hemans. Noctes coenaeque Deum Hon. Giving the " Chef-Guide " the Slip -- How to carry Cream in the Mountains -- Dangers of the Glaciers -- Arrival at the Tacul -- An Airy Lodging -- " Difficulties" of the Col du Geant revisited -- Supper on the Moraine -- Night among the Glaciers -- A Cold Bath -- Useful Coffee-pot -- Sunrise on the Mer de Glace -- Les Egralets -- The Jardin -- Return to the Montanvert -- Descent to Chamouni in the Dark -- Remarks -- Desirable Arrangement. I Was at Chamouni in the autumn of 1854, accompanied by my wife and brother-in-law; and after the usual round of excursions, after visiting the Flegere, and the Montanvert, essaying the passage of the " Ponts," ascending the Breven, and watching from that glorious point of view a very successful ascent of Mont Blanc, I experienced a growing desire to introduce my wife to some of the wilder and grander features of glacier scenery, and to give her a little insight into what exploring the recesses of the High Alps really involves, I was satisfied 34 WHERE TO SLEEP. that the great fatigue of reaching and returning from the Jardin in the same day, even if we slept two nights at the Montanvert, would destroy all the pleasure she would otherwise derive from the expedition, even if it did not prove altogether beyond her strength; besides which...