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ASCENTS OF MOUNTAINS. 439
selves, and important societies are being formed in every direction in order to push on local explorations. These societies address themselves
most of all to the mountains which rear their glittering summits far above
populated slopes, where no mortal foot has yet surmounted the snow.
Every year several of these hitherto inviolate peaks are successfully scaled
by travelers, who point out to their friends the road they must follow in
order to surmount them; these small spots, elevated into the glacial regions of the air, can no longer escape the investigations of man, any more
than the vast tracts in the arctic and antarctic zones. The English may
lay the chief claim to the honor of having given the first impulse to the
desire for exploring so many lofty summits. It is now a hundred and
twenty-five years since Pocock and Wyndham discovered, so to speak,
Mont Blanc. Since that memorable epoch, individuals ofthe English nation are still those who, surpassing in zeal and intrepidity the very inhabitants of the Swiss Alps, and even the Savoyard, Italian, and French
mountaineers, have made the most frequent ascents of Mont Blanc and
the other giants of the Alps; it is the English, too, who have investigated
with the greatest ardor the Mer-de-Glace and the various glaciers of the
Western continents, and have explained to us the actual topography of
the almost unknown ranges of Pelvoux, Grand Paradis, and Viso; it is
they, too, who, by the foundation of the first Alpine Club, have since given
rise to a great number of societies of the same kind in the different countries of Europe. Lastly, they have just established at Lahore a " Himalaya Club," in the hope of being able some day to surmount in turn all
the lofty summits of Central Asia, which are double the height of the European giants.
| Title | The ocean, atmosphere, and life |
| Creator | Reclus, Elisée |
| Publisher | Harper |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1873 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000518 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ASCENTS OF MOUNTAINS. 439 selves, and important societies are being formed in every direction in order to push on local explorations. These societies address themselves most of all to the mountains which rear their glittering summits far above populated slopes, where no mortal foot has yet surmounted the snow. Every year several of these hitherto inviolate peaks are successfully scaled by travelers, who point out to their friends the road they must follow in order to surmount them; these small spots, elevated into the glacial regions of the air, can no longer escape the investigations of man, any more than the vast tracts in the arctic and antarctic zones. The English may lay the chief claim to the honor of having given the first impulse to the desire for exploring so many lofty summits. It is now a hundred and twenty-five years since Pocock and Wyndham discovered, so to speak, Mont Blanc. Since that memorable epoch, individuals ofthe English nation are still those who, surpassing in zeal and intrepidity the very inhabitants of the Swiss Alps, and even the Savoyard, Italian, and French mountaineers, have made the most frequent ascents of Mont Blanc and the other giants of the Alps; it is the English, too, who have investigated with the greatest ardor the Mer-de-Glace and the various glaciers of the Western continents, and have explained to us the actual topography of the almost unknown ranges of Pelvoux, Grand Paradis, and Viso; it is they, too, who, by the foundation of the first Alpine Club, have since given rise to a great number of societies of the same kind in the different countries of Europe. Lastly, they have just established at Lahore a " Himalaya Club," in the hope of being able some day to surmount in turn all the lofty summits of Central Asia, which are double the height of the European giants. |
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