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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Preface
  4. Notes to the Preface of the Fifth Edition
  5. Epigraph
  6. Frontispiece
  7. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69
    1. I: Introductory
    2. II: The Ascent of Mont Pelvoux
    3. III: The Mont Cenis—The Fell Railway—The Great Tunnel Through the Alps
    4. IV: My First Scramble on the Matterhorn
    5. V: Renewed Attempts to Ascend the Matterhorn
    6. VI: The Val Tournanche—Direct Pass from Breuil to Zermatt (Breuiljoch)—Zermatt—Ascent of the Grand Tournalin
    7. VII: Our Sixth Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn
    8. VIII: From St. Michel on the Mont Cenis Road, by the Col des Aiguilles d’Arve, Col de Martignare, and the Brêche de la Meije, to La Bérarde
    9. IX: The Ascent of the Pointe des Écrins
    10. X: On the First Passage of the Col de Pilatte
    11. XI: Passage of the Col de Triolet, and First Ascents of Mont Dolent, Aiguille de Trélatête, and Aiguille d’Argentière.
    12. XII: The Moming Pass—Zermatt
    13. XIII: The First Ascent of the Grand Cornier
    14. XIV: The Ascent of the Dent Blanche
    15. XV: Lost on the Col d’Hérens—My Seventh Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn
    16. XVI: The Valley of Aosta, and Ascent of the Grandes Jorasses
    17. XVII: The First Passage of the Col Dolent
    18. XVIII: Ascent of the Aiguille Verte
    19. XIX: The First Passage of the Col de Talèfre
    20. XX: The First Ascent of the Ruinette—The Matterhorn
    21. XXI: The First Ascent of the Matterhorn
    22. XXII: Descent of the Matterhorn
  8. A: The Death of Bennen
  9. B: Struck by Lightning Upon the Matterhorn
  10. C: Subsequent History of the Matterhorn
  11. D: Table of Attempts Made to Ascend the Matterhorn Previous to the First Ascent
  12. E: Ascents of the Matterhorn
  13. F: Courte Note sur la Géologie du Matterhorn
  14. G: Stratification of Snow and Formation of Glacier-Ice
  15. H: Denudation in the Valley of the Durance
  16. Maps
  17. Endnotes
  18. List of Illustrations
  19. Colophon
  20. Uncopyright

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  1. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69
  2. Endnotes
  3. List of Illustrations