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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... head to foot , all the remote and less frequented valleys of Piedmont , which descend from the steep southern face of the great Pennine chain , from Mont Blanc west to Monte Rosa east . The latter noble mountain , with its deep glens ...
... head to foot , all the remote and less frequented valleys of Piedmont , which descend from the steep southern face of the great Pennine chain , from Mont Blanc west to Monte Rosa east . The latter noble mountain , with its deep glens ...
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... head of his victorious troops . But the brightest epoch in the history of the Mons Jovis was the year 962 , after the re - establishment of the Empire in Italy by Otho of Saxony , when Bernard de Menthon , Arch- deacon of Aosta ...
... head of his victorious troops . But the brightest epoch in the history of the Mons Jovis was the year 962 , after the re - establishment of the Empire in Italy by Otho of Saxony , when Bernard de Menthon , Arch- deacon of Aosta ...
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... head of the Val Formazza , were to be the scenes of our future adventures , with what fortune remains to be told . Night and the piercing cold at length drove us back into the Convent , and after vespers and the evening meal , at which ...
... head of the Val Formazza , were to be the scenes of our future adventures , with what fortune remains to be told . Night and the piercing cold at length drove us back into the Convent , and after vespers and the evening meal , at which ...
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... head of the Val , its snow - 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 ...
... head of the Val , its snow - 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 ...
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... head - quarters of a flock of goats , who were happily grouped on the stone roof . Luckily hunting up a rude pair of pincers , I made the guide draw a nail from each of the other three shoes , and , with the help of my geological hammer ...
... head - quarters of a flock of goats , who were happily grouped on the stone roof . Luckily hunting up a rude pair of pincers , I made the guide draw a nail from each of the other three shoes , and , with the help of my geological hammer ...
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