List of Illustrations
Some images have been moved from inside paragraphs for ease of reading. (note of the etext transcriber.)
| The last bivouac of Messrs Donkin and Fox in the Caucasus | Frontispiece |
| Christian Almer, Joseph Imboden, Jean Antoine Carrel, Alexander Burgener | To face page 3 |
| The last steep bit near the top—At the end of a hot day—An instant’s halt to choose the best way up a steep wall of rock—The ice-axes are stowed away in a crack, to be brought up by the last man | " " 6 |
| Auguste Gentinetta—Auguste Gentinetta on the way to the Matterhorn—The beginning of the climb up the Matterhorn—The spot where was the bergschrund into which Mr Sloggett’s party fell | " " 8 |
| Auguste Gentinetta on a mountain-top—The ice-cliffs over which Mr Sloggett’s party would have fallen had they not been dashed into the bergschrund—The ruined chapel by the Schwarzsee—The last resting-place at Zermatt of some English climbers | " " 11 |
| On a snow ridge—A halt for lunch above the snow-line—Mrs Aubrey Le Blond | " " 51 |
| A cutting through an avalanche—The remains of an avalanche—An avalanche of stones—A mountain chapel | " " 59 |
| A mountain path—Peasants of the mountains—A village buried beneath an avalanche—Terraces planted to prevent avalanches | " " 65 |
| A typical Caucasian landscape | " " 105 |
| Melchior Anderegg, his son and grandchild | " " 124 |
| Crevasses and séracs—On the border of a crevasse—A snow bridge—Soft snow in the afternoon | " " 133 |
| The Bétemps Hut—Ski-ing—A fall on Skis—A great crevasse | " " 137 |
| The balloon “Stella” getting ready to start (p. 301)—A bivouac in the olden days—Boulder practice—The last rocks descending | " " 148 |
| Provisions for a mountain hotel—An outlook over rock and snow—Dent Blanche from Schwarzsee (winter)—Dent Blanche from Theodule Glacier (summer) | " " 152 |
| Hut on Col de Bértol—Ascending the Aiguilles Rouges—Summit of the Dent Blanche—Cornice on the Dent Blanche | " " 156 |
| Ambrose Supersax (p. 209)—View from the Rosetta | " " 182 |
| Climbing party leaving Zermatt—The Gandegg Hut—The Trift Hotel—Zinal Rothhorn from Trift Valley | " " 195 |
| Zinal Rothhorn—Top of a Chamonix Aiguille—A steep face of rock—“Leading strings” | " " 202 |
| A bergschrund—Homewards over the snow-slopes | " " 230 |
| The Ecrins—Clouds breaking over a ridge—Summit of the Jungfrau—Wind-blown snow | " " 235 |
| The Ecrins from the Glacier Blanc | " " 247 |
| Slab climbing—A rock ridge—On the Dent du Géant—The top at last | " " 252 |
| The second largest glacier in the Alps—On a ridge in the Oberland | " " 259 |
| Thirteen thousand feet above the sea—On the Furggen Grat—A “personally conducted” party on the Breithorn—Packing the knapsack | " " 269 |
| Monte Rosa from the Furggen Grat—The Matterhorn from the Wellenkuppe | " " 272 |
| A glacier lake—Amongst the séracs—Taking off the rope—Water at last! | " " 297 |
| The balloon “Stella” starting from Zermatt—A moment after | " " 298 |
| The Matterhorn from the Hörnli Ridge—The Matterhorn from the Furgg Glacier—Joseph Biner—The Matterhorn Hut | " " 302 |
| A hot day on a mountain-top—A summit near Saas—Luncheon en route (winter)—Luncheon on a glacier pass (summer) | " " 310 |
| A tedious snow-slope—A sitting glissade—A glacier-capped summit—On the frontier | " " 312 |
| Unpleasant going—On the crest of an old moraine | " " 317 |
| An awkward bit of climbing—Guides at Zermatt—The Boval Hut—Au revoir! | " " 322 |