Ten Great MountainsBen Nevis, Mount Cook, the Matterhorn, Ushba, Mont Blane, Mount Logan, Nanga Parbat, Kangehenjunga, Mount Everest., 1947 - Mountaineering - 213 pages |
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adventure Alpine Alps ascent avalanches Ball Glacier barrier wall Bauer Ben Nevis bergschrund bivouac Brenva Camp VIII climb climbers clouds Col du GĂ©ant cold corner couloir crest crevasses Crib Goch crossed dangerous descended difficult east ridge easy edge Everest expedition Ficker foot Germans Glaslyn Graham gully height highest point hundred feet icefall Kangchenjunga King Peak ledge Llanberis looked lower MacCarthy main ridge Matterhorn Merkl miles mist Mont Blanc Mont Maudit morning Mount Cook Mount Logan Mount Tasman mountain Mummery Nanga Parbat Nevis night north face North-East Ridge o'clock party pass plateau porters possible precipices Rakiot nullah Rakiot Peak reached rope route Schulze side Silbersattel slopes snow snow-field Snowdon spur summit Tasman Glacier tent thousands of feet tower track unclimbable upper Ushba weather Welzenbach west wall wind Zealand