This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...the purport of this chapter is to deal with snow and ice, and that of the following one with rock, considered from a climber's point of view, it must be apparent that only a certain amount of information on these subjects can be conveyed by speaking or by writing; and that much of the knowledge, and the whole of the skill, which go to make a mountaineer, can be learned only by practical experience amongst the mountains. Snow and ice exist in the Alps in various conditions, and it is well to remember that, though the powdery substance which weighs down the branches of the fir trees is one thing, and the glassy surface on which skaters glide is another, the boundary line between the two is very shadowy; and that, at high altitudes, snow passes, by slow and imperceptible degrees...

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