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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... especially as the weather had become unfavourable for difficult mountain undertakings . The result of our deliberations was , that we should endeavour to reach the Allée Blanche at the southern foot of Mont Blanc , by a pass also called ...
... especially as the weather had become unfavourable for difficult mountain undertakings . The result of our deliberations was , that we should endeavour to reach the Allée Blanche at the southern foot of Mont Blanc , by a pass also called ...
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... especially in winter , as well as for the accommodation of the custodes of the shrine of Jupiter Penninus . This would become an obvious necessity as the pass became more impor- tant , and we have records of an hospice existing there ...
... especially in winter , as well as for the accommodation of the custodes of the shrine of Jupiter Penninus . This would become an obvious necessity as the pass became more impor- tant , and we have records of an hospice existing there ...
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... especially in the winter , for religious instruction . We were sorry to learn on inquiring for him , that the very agreeable young monk who entertained us on our last visit had had his then expressed prognostications fulfilled , and was ...
... especially in the winter , for religious instruction . We were sorry to learn on inquiring for him , that the very agreeable young monk who entertained us on our last visit had had his then expressed prognostications fulfilled , and was ...
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... especially successful in the new field of establishing schools and colleges . Aosta lying at the foot of the two passes of the Pennine and Graian Alps - now the Great and Little St. Bernard - he became at an early period cognizant of ...
... especially successful in the new field of establishing schools and colleges . Aosta lying at the foot of the two passes of the Pennine and Graian Alps - now the Great and Little St. Bernard - he became at an early period cognizant of ...
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... especially various dusky Hipparchias , bright blue Polyommati , and green- veined Daplidices , clustering thick on every tiny bloom . Behind us and to the N.W. as we looked back , the wild peaks of the Tour des Fous , the Pain de Sucre ...
... especially various dusky Hipparchias , bright blue Polyommati , and green- veined Daplidices , clustering thick on every tiny bloom . Behind us and to the N.W. as we looked back , the wild peaks of the Tour des Fous , the Pain de Sucre ...
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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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