The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps: A Tour Through All the Romantic and Less-frequented "vals" of Northern Piedmont, from the Tarentaise to the Gries |
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... oppositifolia , and other Alpine plants , flourished with a cheery brightness which gave a life even to the sombre mosses and grey lichen - covered rocks . Descending these rocks to the lakelet , we came on B 3 CHAP . I. 9 SCENERY .
... oppositifolia , and other Alpine plants , flourished with a cheery brightness which gave a life even to the sombre mosses and grey lichen - covered rocks . Descending these rocks to the lakelet , we came on B 3 CHAP . I. 9 SCENERY .
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... covering a limpid little spring , which marks the often contested boundary dividing the Val d'Entremont on the N. from the Val d'Aosta on the S. A line is drawn across its rounded surface , and on their respective sides it bears the ...
... covering a limpid little spring , which marks the often contested boundary dividing the Val d'Entremont on the N. from the Val d'Aosta on the S. A line is drawn across its rounded surface , and on their respective sides it bears the ...
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... covered with festering sores , and all more or less with vermin , the inmates of the Convent owing their safety from them to the severity of the climate alone , but for which the Chanoine told us , in spite of all their precautions ...
... covered with festering sores , and all more or less with vermin , the inmates of the Convent owing their safety from them to the severity of the climate alone , but for which the Chanoine told us , in spite of all their precautions ...
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... covered summit , with kindly thoughts of the good monks of St. Bernard , steadily following , summer and winter , their work of Christian charity in that dreary region of cloud and snow . Before quite reaching the bottom of the deep ...
... covered summit , with kindly thoughts of the good monks of St. Bernard , steadily following , summer and winter , their work of Christian charity in that dreary region of cloud and snow . Before quite reaching the bottom of the deep ...
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... covered summit fortunately clear , and promising us a prosperous passage at last , in recompence for our previous bad fortune . We ascended past several little hamlets , the chief of which is Bosses , -- picturesque at a distance as ...
... covered summit fortunately clear , and promising us a prosperous passage at last , in recompence for our previous bad fortune . We ascended past several little hamlets , the chief of which is Bosses , -- picturesque at a distance as ...
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Alagna Alpine Alps ancient Aosta ascent avalanches baggage Barailler beautiful Bernard blue bouquetin bridge châlets Challant chamois Châtillon church climb clouds Cogne colour Courmayeur Cramont crevasses crossed curé d'Ossola dark deep Delapierre descending distance Doire Fcap feet foot forest German glacier glen gneiss gorge granite green Gressoney Grivola head height houses Italian La Thuile larch lofty looked lower Macugnaga mass meadows Mont Blanc Mont Velan Monte Rosa Mora moraine morning mule narrow night pass path peaks Piedmont pine Post 8vo precipice range reached remarkable rich ridge Rimasco Rimella road rocks Roman round scene scenery Second Edition seemed seen Sesia singular slope snow steep stone stream summit Taurini torrent track trees Turin Val d'Aosta Val d'Ayas Val d'Ossola Val de Lys Val Sesia valley Valpelline Varallo vast village Vols walls wild Woodcuts Zumstein
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