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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... height of some 9200 feet , into the Val Ferret , which lies under the base of the left or eastern flank of the Mont Blanc chain . By this route we should have the opportunity of examining some features of geological interest , and also ...
... height of some 9200 feet , into the Val Ferret , which lies under the base of the left or eastern flank of the Mont Blanc chain . By this route we should have the opportunity of examining some features of geological interest , and also ...
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... height of their few weeks of summer , dark clouds of sleet sweeping over us and whitening the little lettuces , while we had left all bright and glowing in the valley below , gave us a more forcible impression than anything else , of ...
... height of their few weeks of summer , dark clouds of sleet sweeping over us and whitening the little lettuces , while we had left all bright and glowing in the valley below , gave us a more forcible impression than anything else , of ...
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... heights were once more scaled by an army in 1034 , when the standards of Herbert of Milan and Boniface of Tuscany were led by Humbert " the white - handed , " Lord of the Val d'Aosta , over the Pennine Alps , to join Conrad in the ...
... heights were once more scaled by an army in 1034 , when the standards of Herbert of Milan and Boniface of Tuscany were led by Humbert " the white - handed , " Lord of the Val d'Aosta , over the Pennine Alps , to join Conrad in the ...
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... height , the giant obelisk of Mont Cervin , while along the glittering range the scarcely inferior peaks of the Breithorn , Michabel , and Alphabel , the Dent Blanche , Mont Gelée , Mont Combin , Mont Velan , the Aiguille Verte , Grande ...
... height , the giant obelisk of Mont Cervin , while along the glittering range the scarcely inferior peaks of the Breithorn , Michabel , and Alphabel , the Dent Blanche , Mont Gelée , Mont Combin , Mont Velan , the Aiguille Verte , Grande ...
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... height . Morges ( not Morgex ) was the first village we came to , and the rough narrow path through it , down which the mule slid , rather than walked , was like a street built on a ruined stair- case ; the people however looked happy ...
... height . Morges ( not Morgex ) was the first village we came to , and the rough narrow path through it , down which the mule slid , rather than walked , was like a street built on a ruined stair- case ; the people however looked happy ...
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