Mountaineering in Colorado the Peaks About Estes Park
Mountaineering in Colorado the Peaks About Estes Park
Frederick H Frederick Hastings Chapin
The book Mountaineering in Colorado the Peaks About Estes Park was written by author Frederick H Frederick Hastings Chapin Here you can read free online of Mountaineering in Colorado the Peaks About Estes Park book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Mountaineering in Colorado the Peaks About Estes Park a good or bad book?
What reading level is Mountaineering in Colorado the Peaks About Estes Park book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
One can judge how utterly powerless we should have been if the conditions had been reversed and we had been chased by the bear. The bear being disposed of, we returned to the glacier and roped ourselves together for an in- vestigation of the surface of the ice, using a forty-foot lariat for the purpose, so that we had about twenty feet of rope between us. Then we crossed the snow to the big crevasse. This was fifteen feet wide in some places, and twenty to thirty feet deep, and large icicles hu...ng down from the upper edges. After securing photo- graphs of this, we went back to the rocks, where the Appalachian threw off the rope and sepa- rated himself from us to climb the final peak by the ledges. Our leader and I tied ourselves 110 MOUNTAINEERING IN COLORADO. together again, and began the ascent to the ridge by the glacier. In Switzerland I had been guided over many glaciers, and on one occasion had had the sensa- tion of dangling on the edge of a crevasse into which I had JRjf mf : /-r fallen ; but never before had I led in crossing a large snow-field, or assumed any responsibility.
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
User Reviews: