Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun

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T. F. Unwin, 1908 - Mountaineering - 304 pages
 

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Page 279 - Characteristics, Usages, Present Status, and Future Prospects." From this article we learn, notwithstanding many discrepancies due partly to long isolation in different surrounds, partly to intermixture, the Lapps would appear to be an offshoot of the great Finno-Tataric (Uralo-Altaic) family. . . . To this widespread division of the Asiatic world they still belong in speech and in some prominent physical characteristics (Keane, 1886, 217-8).
Page 39 - ... seemed another Barre des Ecrins. To the south, the huge snowy mass of the Yoeggevarre resembled Mont Blanc. But another feature was present, never seen in Alpine views. The Lake of Thun looks exquisitely lovely at early morning from the Jungfrau. But no lake can match the heavenly blue of the fjords as they stretch mile after mile, away amidst snow-crowned mountains, away to the distant, island-gemmed Arctic Ocean.

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