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Hours of Exercise in the Alps

by John Tyndall

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3I — The Lauwinen-Thor
  4. 4II — Disaster on the Col du Géant
  5. 5III — The Matterhorn — First Assault
  6. 6IV — Thermometric Station on Mont Blanc
  7. 7V
  8. 8VI — The Urbachthal and Gauli Glacier
  9. 9VII — The Grimsel and the Æggischhorn
  10. 10VIII — The Bel Alp
  11. 11IX — The Weisshorn
  12. 12X — Inspection of the Matterhorn
  13. 13XI — Over the Moro
  14. 14XII — The Old Weissthor
  15. 15XIII — Rescue From a Crevasse
  16. 16XIV — The Matterhorn-Second Assault
  17. 17XV — From Stein to the Grimsel
  18. 18XVI — The Oberaarjoch — Adventure at the Æggischhorn
  19. 19XVII — Ascent of the Jungfrau
  20. 20XVIII — Death of Bennen on the Haut de Cry
  21. 21XIX — Accident on the Piz Morteratsch
  22. 22XX — Alpine Sculpture
  23. 23XXI — Search on the Matterhorn: A Project
  24. 24XXII — The Titlis, Finsteraarschlucht, Petersgrat, and Italian Lakes
  25. 25XXIII — Ascent of the Eiger and Passage of the Trift
  26. 26XXIV — The Matterhorn — Third and Last Assault
  27. 27XXV — Ascent of the Aletschhorn
  28. 28XXVI — A Day Among the Séracs of the Glacier du Géant Fourteen Year…
  29. 29I — Observations on the Mer de Glace
  30. 30II — Structure and Properties of Ice
  31. 31III — Structure of Glaciers
  32. 32IV — Helmholtz on Ice and Glaciers
  33. 33V — Clouds
  34. 34VI — Killarney
  35. 35VII — Snowdon in Winter
  36. 36VIII — Voyage to Algeria to Observe the Eclipse

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