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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Page 30
... vast amphitheatre . A straight narrow line marked the long road to Courmayeur by St. Didier , the last of which we could barely see , embedded in the mouth of a deeply shaded glen leading to the Little St. Bernard . A mass of fiery ...
... vast amphitheatre . A straight narrow line marked the long road to Courmayeur by St. Didier , the last of which we could barely see , embedded in the mouth of a deeply shaded glen leading to the Little St. Bernard . A mass of fiery ...
Page 31
... vast rift , where the mountain precipice was cleft from the summit to a vast depth below . The sheer perpendicular precipices , on which not a blade of grass rested , gaped just wide enough to let a little stream gush through , which ...
... vast rift , where the mountain precipice was cleft from the summit to a vast depth below . The sheer perpendicular precipices , on which not a blade of grass rested , gaped just wide enough to let a little stream gush through , which ...
Page 36
... sun retreated up the valley , fleecy clouds rose slowly from it , and before we left gradually enveloped Mont Blanc , the rose - tinged summit lingering uncovered the last , soaring at such a vast 36 СПАР . ІІ . VAL D'ENTRÈVES .
... sun retreated up the valley , fleecy clouds rose slowly from it , and before we left gradually enveloped Mont Blanc , the rose - tinged summit lingering uncovered the last , soaring at such a vast 36 СПАР . ІІ . VAL D'ENTRÈVES .
Page 37
... vast height that imagination could hardly fill up the spaces between it and the valley , recently as we had seen the whole . The clouds crept slowly along the entire ridge , resting on it for the night , and mantling the now pale ...
... vast height that imagination could hardly fill up the spaces between it and the valley , recently as we had seen the whole . The clouds crept slowly along the entire ridge , resting on it for the night , and mantling the now pale ...
Page 38
... vast frozen cataract of blocks of ice , until arrested half - way down , by a mass of rock in the centre , with a smaller one on each side . Over the centre one the ice - bed is forced in crashing avalanches , shivered into dust in ...
... vast frozen cataract of blocks of ice , until arrested half - way down , by a mass of rock in the centre , with a smaller one on each side . Over the centre one the ice - bed is forced in crashing avalanches , shivered into dust in ...
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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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