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List of Illustrations

  1. Fog-bow seen from the Matterhorn on July 14, 1865.

  2. Beachy Head.

  3. The Devil of Notre Dame.

  4. Mules.

  5. A curé in difficulties.

  6. Which is the brute?

  7. At the St. Bernard.

  8. The village of Biona.

  9. Garibaldi!

  10. Briançon.

  11. Mont Pelvoux from above La Bessée.

  12. In the Val d’Alefred.

  13. The Grand Pelvoux de Val Louise.

  14. Buttresses of Mont Pelvoux.

  15. R. J. S. Macdonald.

  16. The route up Mont Pelvoux.

  17. Mont Pelvoux and the Aléfroide, from near Mont Dauphin, in the Valley of the Durance.

  18. The blanket bag.

  19. Natural pillar near Molines (weather action).

  20. Crossing Mont Cenis (1861).

  21. The little postilion.

  22. The centre rail on a curve.

  23. Section of the Fell railway.

  24. The covered ways on the Fell railway (Italian side of the Mont Cenis).

  25. The Mont Cenis road and the Fell railway near the summit of the pass, on the Italian Side.

  26. Centre rail brake.

  27. Tubes conveying the compressed air to the Mont Cenis tunnel, and joints of the same.

  28. Transverse section of the Mont Cenis tunnel.

  29. The advanced gallery on the French side of the Mont Cenis tunnel, with the perforatrices at work.

  30. Cross section of the advanced gallery.

  31. Longitudinal section of the end of the advanced gallery.

  32. Germain Sommeiller.

  33. The Matterhorn from the northeast.

  34. The Matterhorn from the summit of the Théodule pass (10,899 feet).

  35. The Matterhorn from near the summit of the Théodule pass.

  36. J. J. Bennen (1862).

  37. Jean-Antoine Carrel (1869).

  38. The Col du Lion: looking towards the Tête du Lion.

  39. Fastening tent-poles.

  40. Alpine tent.

  41. Climbing claw.

  42. Rope and ring.

  43. “The Chimney.” On the southwest ridge of the Matterhorn.

  44. “In attempting to pass the corner I slipped and fell.”

  45. At Breuil (Giomein).

  46. A cannonade on the Matterhorn (1862).

  47. The Matterhorn from Breuil.

  48. “But what is this?”

  49. An arch of the aqueduct in the Val Tournanche.

  50. Water-worn rocks in the gorge below the Gorner Glacier.

  51. Striations produced by glacier-action (at Grindelwald).

  52. Sections of roches moutonnées and roches nivelées.

  53. Diagram of weathered rock.

  54. “Carrel lowered me down.”

  55. The crags of the Matterhorn, during the storm, midnight, August 10, 1863.

  56. Monsieur Favre.

  57. Crossing the Channel.

  58. Michel-Auguste Croz (1865).

  59. The route.

  60. The Aiguilles d’Arve from above the chalets of Rieu Blanc.

  61. Melchior Anderegg in 1864.

  62. Map of the Brêche de la Meije, etc.

  63. Angle of the summit of the Meije, as seen from La Grave.

  64. The Vallon des Étançons (looking towards La Bérarde).

  65. Map of the Central Dauphiné Alps.

  66. The Pointe des Écrins from the Col du Galibier.

  67. The route up the Pointe des Écrins.

  68. Fragment from the summit of the Pointe des Écrins.

  69. Descending the western arête of the Pointe des Écrins.

  70. A night with Croz.

  71. A snow couloir.

  72. “We saw a toe⁠—It seemed to belong to Moore⁠—We saw Reynaud a flying body.”

  73. Portraits of Mr. Reilly on a wet day.

  74. Our camp on Mont Suc.

  75. Hôtel Couttet.

  76. Ice-avalanche on the Moming Pass.

  77. The summit of the Moming Pass in 1864.

  78. The clubroom of Zermatt, in 1864.

  79. Part of the southern ridge of the Grand Cornier.

  80. Part of the northern ridge of the Grand Cornier.

  81. Leslie Stephen.

  82. The bergschrund on the Dent Blanche in 1865.

  83. T. S. Kennedy.

  84. The Matterhorn from the Riffelberg.

  85. Dip of strata on the Matterhorn.

  86. The Matterhorn from the summit of the Théodule Pass.

  87. The Matterhorn from the northeast.

  88. My tent-bearer⁠—The hunchback.

  89. The village of Val Tournanche (1892).

  90. The bouquetin.

  91. A cretin of Aosta.

  92. Imaginary section of a glacier.

  93. Quartz-vein.

  94. The Grandes Jorasses and the Doire torrent, Val Ferret (d’Italie).

  95. The summit of the Col Dolent.

  96. My ice-axe.

  97. Kennedy ice-axe.

  98. Another form of ice-axe.

  99. Crampon.

  100. Christian Almer.

  101. On the Mer de Glace.

  102. Ice pinnacles on the Mer de Glace.

  103. Western side of the Col de Talèfre.

  104. Glissading.

  105. The wrong way to use the rope.

  106. The right way to use the rope.

  107. Lord Francis Douglas.

  108. The chapel at the Schwarzsee (Lac Noir) in 1865.

  109. Rev. Charles Hudson.

  110. “Croz! Croz!! Come here!”

  111. The summit of the Matterhorn in 1865 (northern end).

  112. The actual summit of the Matterhorn in 1865.

  113. Rope broken on the Matterhorn.

  114. Monsieur Alex. Seiler.

  115. The Manilla rope.

  116. The second rope.

  117. The end.

  118. J. B. Bich, in 1892.

  119. The late Canon Carrel, of Aosta.

  120. J.-Joseph Maquignaz.

  121. The summit of the Matterhorn in 1874 (northern end).

  122. The hut on the Hörnli ridge (1892).

  123. The English Church at Zermatt.

  124. On the Zermatt railway, between Stalden and Kalpetran.

  125. The “Système Abt.”

  126. Key to the clubroom of Zermatt.

  127. Geological section of the Matterhorn (Mont Cervin).

  128. Pinnacles near Sachas in the Valley of the Durance; formed from an old moraine.

  129. Vertical section of the snow on the summit of the Col de Valpelline. Aug. 1886.

  130. General route map.

  131. The Valley of Zermatt, and the Central Pennine Alps.

  132. The Valpelline, the Valtournanche, and the Central Pennine Alps.

  133. The chain of Mont Blanc.

  134. The Matterhorn and its glaciers.

  135. Fog-bow.

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