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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... light shines dazzlingly for a moment through an opening door , and a monk in Augustine habit bids you welcome . Wet , weary , and numb , you are conducted to a comfortable but simple dormitory , and after a change , if fortunate enough ...
... light shines dazzlingly for a moment through an opening door , and a monk in Augustine habit bids you welcome . Wet , weary , and numb , you are conducted to a comfortable but simple dormitory , and after a change , if fortunate enough ...
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... light air - tight japanned cases , so arranged with straps as to be easily adjusted on either side of a mule . After crossing the Alps these were to be sent on to some convenient point in advance , for the purpose of replenishing our ...
... light air - tight japanned cases , so arranged with straps as to be easily adjusted on either side of a mule . After crossing the Alps these were to be sent on to some convenient point in advance , for the purpose of replenishing our ...
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... light as his biographers have done . We learn from them that his father Richard de Menthon , and his mother Bernoline de Doingt , having no other child but Bernard to inherit the family estates and the Château de Menthon on the Lake of ...
... light as his biographers have done . We learn from them that his father Richard de Menthon , and his mother Bernoline de Doingt , having no other child but Bernard to inherit the family estates and the Château de Menthon on the Lake of ...
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... light from the grated window . We would willingly have accepted the kind and pressing invitation of the Fathers , to spend some days with them and attempt the ascent of Mont Velan , but the weather gave no encouragement for such an ...
... light from the grated window . We would willingly have accepted the kind and pressing invitation of the Fathers , to spend some days with them and attempt the ascent of Mont Velan , but the weather gave no encouragement for such an ...
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... light and shade through the stately pines , which clothed the richly tinted rocks on our left , or clustered on little knolls in gracefully feathered groups . A tiny cascade leaped down from the rocky ledges , among beds of rhododendron ...
... light and shade through the stately pines , which clothed the richly tinted rocks on our left , or clustered on little knolls in gracefully feathered groups . A tiny cascade leaped down from the rocky ledges , among beds of rhododendron ...
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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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