The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps: A Tour Through All the Romantic and Less-frequented "Vals" of Northern Piedmont, from the Tarentaise to the Gries ... With [plates And] Illustrations from the Author's Sketches, Maps [and a Plan], Etc |
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... track — Overtaken by night St. Barthélemy - Night at the cure's Party of priests - Schools and education Fenêtre de St. Barthélemy Suspicious cha- racters - Torgnon - Antey - Valtournanche .. 184 CHAPTER IX . VAL TOURNANCHE ...
... track — Overtaken by night St. Barthélemy - Night at the cure's Party of priests - Schools and education Fenêtre de St. Barthélemy Suspicious cha- racters - Torgnon - Antey - Valtournanche .. 184 CHAPTER IX . VAL TOURNANCHE ...
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... track Inaggio -- Timber " serra " - Forno - Landslip - Campello Strange quarters - Col di Campello - View of Monte Rosa - Rimella View from churchyard- Descent of Val Mastalone — Night perils — -- - The Gula - Varallo VAL SESIA ...
... track Inaggio -- Timber " serra " - Forno - Landslip - Campello Strange quarters - Col di Campello - View of Monte Rosa - Rimella View from churchyard- Descent of Val Mastalone — Night perils — -- - The Gula - Varallo VAL SESIA ...
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... track ; — enveloped in bewildering cloud - mist and whistling sleet , which sweep down on the icy wind from unseen mountain- tops ; -plunging knee - deep in the thick snow , or stumbling in the dark over protruding rocks and down ...
... track ; — enveloped in bewildering cloud - mist and whistling sleet , which sweep down on the icy wind from unseen mountain- tops ; -plunging knee - deep in the thick snow , or stumbling in the dark over protruding rocks and down ...
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... track , and can hardly realise the fact that you are 8200 feet above the sea - level , and in the highest permanent habitation in Europe . Such was our first experience of this well - known pass , on a former visit , late in the year ...
... track , and can hardly realise the fact that you are 8200 feet above the sea - level , and in the highest permanent habitation in Europe . Such was our first experience of this well - known pass , on a former visit , late in the year ...
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... track , every feature of it seemed familiar . The lonely Cantine de Proz , where we halted for breakfast , was as dirty as ever . The little Morgue was just as I had sketched it , though the bodies then in it had nearly mouldered away ...
... track , every feature of it seemed familiar . The lonely Cantine de Proz , where we halted for breakfast , was as dirty as ever . The little Morgue was just as I had sketched it , though the bodies then in it had nearly mouldered away ...
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Aiguille Alagna Alpine Alps Aosta ascent avalanches baggage Barailler beautiful Bernard blue bouquetin bridge Cervin châlets Challant chamois Champorcher Châtillon church climb clouds Cogne colour Courmayeur Cramont crest crevasses crossed curé d'Ayas d'Ollen dark deep Delapierre descending distance Doire feet ferns foot forest German glacier glen gneiss gorge granite green Gressoney Grivola head height houses Italian La Thuile larch lofty looked lower Macugnaga magnificent mass meadows Mont Blanc Mont Velan Monte Rosa Mora moraine morning mule narrow night pass path peaks Piedmont pine precipice range reached remarkable rich ridge Rimasco Rimella road rocks round scene scenery seemed seen singular slope snow Spitze steep stone stream summit Taurini torrent track trees Turin Val d'Aosta Val d'Ayas Val de Lys Val Ferret Val Sesia Val Tournanche valley Varallo vast village walls wild winter Zumstein
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