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True Tales of Mountain Adventures

by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — What Is Mountaineering?
  4. 4Chapter II — A Few Words About Glaciers
  5. 5Chapter III — Avalanches
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Guides of the Alps: What They Are and What They Do
  7. 7Chapter V — The Guides of the Alps — (Continued)
  8. 8Chapter VI — An Avalanche on the Haut-de-Cry
  9. 9Chapter VII — Caught in an Avalanche on the Matterhorn
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Lost in the Ice for Forty Years
  11. 11Chapter IX — The Most Terrible of All Alpine Tragedies
  12. 12Chapter X — A Wonderful Slide Down a Wall of Ice
  13. 13Chapter XI — An Adventure on the Trift Pass
  14. 14Chapter XII — An Exciting Passage of the Col de Pilatte
  15. 15Chapter XIII — An Adventure on the Aletsch Glacier
  16. 16Chapter XIV — A Wonderful Feat by Two Ladies
  17. 17Chapter XV — A Fine Performance Without Guides
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Piz Scerscen Twice in Four Days — The First Ascen…
  19. 19Chapter XVII — The Ascent of a Wall of Ice
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — The Aiguille du Dru
  21. 21Chapter XIX — The Most Famous Mountain in the Alps — The Conquest o…
  22. 22Chapter XX — Some Tragedies on the Matterhorn
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Whole Duty of the Climber — Alpine Distress Signals
  24. 24Glossary and Index

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