LAB DAILY Filmed & Processed by the Library Photographic Service University of California Berkeley 94/720 od ~~ y, { , 7 / Poa / Fg £ N _- ( J ) 7 / A \ A Sd J. 7 7A (rg , After having thus made every effort in our power for their recovery, we agreed to abandon the enterprise altogether, and return to the Grands Mulets. The guides having in vain attempted to divert us from our purpose, we returned to the crevasse, from which, during the consultation, we had separated ourselves to a short distance, and descended upon the new- fallen snow. Happily it did not give way beneath our weight. Here we continued, above a quarter of an hour, to make every exertion in our power for the recovery of our poor comrades. After thrusting the poles in to their full length, we knelt down, and applied our mouth to the end, shouting along them, and then listening for an answer, in the fond hope that they might still be alive, sheltered by some projection of the icy walls of the crevasse; but, alas! all was — ee ee— ; - : iti g A i, Wr —— - A —————y - ) DR. HAMELS FATAL ATTEMPT. 151 silent as the grave, and we had too much reason to fear that they were long since insensible, and probably at a vast depth beneath the snow on which we were standing. We could see no bottom to the gulf on each side of the pile of snow on which we stood ; the sides of the cre- vasse were here, as in other places, solid ice, of a cerulean colour, and very beautiful to the eye. Two of the guides, our two leaders, had followed us mechanically to the spot, but could not be prevailed upon to make any attempts to search for the bodies. One of these soon proposed to us to continue the ascent. This was Marie Couttet, who had escaped so narrowly with his life; but Julien Devouassoud loudly protested against this, and resolutely refused to advance. Whether or not we could have prevailed on a sufficient number to accompany us to the sum- mit, I cannot say; but we did not bring the point to trial, having now no room left in our minds for any other idea than that of the most bitter regret. I hardly know whether we should SE ORAS ra ig i - A 0 STR MAINE PPS 152 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. then have felt sufficient interest to lead us a hundred yards onwards, had that been the only remaining interval between us and the summit. Had we recovered our lost companions, I am sure the past danger would not have deterred us; but to advance under present circumstances, required other hearts than ours. I believe those who condemn us for having abandoned the enterprise when so near to its accomplishment (and many have done so), refer all our reluctance to personal fear; but this is a charge from which we do not feel very anxious to clear ourselves. We had soon to encounter a much more serious imputation of an opposite character, that of undue rashness, in persisting in the ascent after the bad weather we had experienced. The best refutation of this charge may be seen in the proces-verbal, held the following morning by the municipal officer, on occasion of the unhappy catastrophe. I was anxious to procure a copy of this important document before we left the Prieuré; but this being against custom, we made a similar appli- DR. HAMEL’S FATAL ATTEMPT. 153 cation to the magistrate at Bonneville, the head- quarters of the district. He was obliging enough to forward a copy to each of us, to our address at Geneva. Had this arrived earlier, we should have been spared some very painful scenes in that city ; where, by the industry of M. Selligue, some very injurious reports were soon in ecir- culation against us. The reluctance expressed by the guides on our proposing to set off the preceding day, arose not so much from the danger they anticipated, as from a conviction that our object in the ascent would be defeated by the cloudiness of the weather. As the same wind continued, they anticipated rain, which would have incommoded us exceedingly ; but on the third morning all their objections seemed at once to vanish, and they were all so eager to proceed, that, as was observed above, we found some difficulty in selecting two to remain behind at the Grands Mulets. “To return to our narrative. All our en- deavours proving fruitless, we at length tore 154 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. ourselves from the spot, towards which we con- tinued to direct many a retrospective glance, in the vague hope of seeing our poor companions reappear, and commenced our melancholy de- scent. After a silent march of nearly three hours, which we performed, not, as before, in one unbroken line, but in detached parties, Dr. Hamel being at some distance behind and H in the front, we regained the Grands Mulets, where we found our tent just as we had left it in the morning. Here we met two guides, who were arrived from Chamounix, accompanied by two Frenchmen on a geological tour: they were desirous of joining our party, but on hear- ing the accident which had befallen us, preferred returning with us to Chamounix. As I was narrating the catastrophe to the party on the rock, one of them, in the warmth of his heart, caught me in his arms, and I was obliged to submit to a salute on both sides of the face, by way of congratulation. Though the day was now pretty far advanced, it being past three DR. HAMEL’S FATAL ATTEMPT, 155 o’clock, yet we preferred continuing our descent. After a short halt, during which the guides packed up all the baggage, we once more put ourselves in motion, and addressed ourselves to the formidable task of descending the Grands Mulets. The guides promised us daylight suf- ficient to conduct us over all the mauvais pas, after which we might either take up with a shed and some straw at the chalet, or proceed to the hotel at Chamounix, according as our strength and inclination should direct. Our mental excitement set us above all personal fear, and we apprehended lest this should be quickly succeeded by a nervousness, which might alto- gether incapacitate us for exertion. The com- mencement of the descent over the ridge being achieved with great caution, we soon proceeded pretty rapidly. One of the guides took the lead, as usual. He was followed by one of our- selves, with a cord round his waist, which was held by the guide next in the line. By this arrangement, we were each between two guides, 166 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. and the spikes in our heels gave us additional confidence in treading. M. Selligue had set off on his‘return as soon as we were out of sight in the morning. The two guides who had arrived with our new acquaintances the Frenchmen, had met him with his two guides in the passage of the glacier, which both these parties contrived to cross without the aid of the ladder, which remained all the time as the main rafter of our tent above. Nothing remarkable occurred during our rapid descent to the chilet, excepting that we found a young chamois in the glacier, which appeared to have made a fruitless en- deavour to cross it, and lost its life by a fall. Our thirst continued as violent as ever, and we drank every five minutes at the delicious drippings of the glacier. Ever since breakfast we had been in a high state of fever, which our mental agitation had no doubt much increased. Dr. Hamel’s pulse was at 128 in the minute, and H ’s and mine were probably at nearly the same height. DR. HAMEL’S FATAL ATTEMPT. 157 “We reached the chélet about seven, where we refreshed ourselves with some milk and wild strawberries. Our new companions, having ascended from this spot in the morning, were now quite exhausted, and remained here for the night. We preferred continuing the descent, though in the dark, by a track which reminded me strongly of a night march in the Pyrenees, and about nine o’clock arrived at the hotel. Mathieu Balmat had got the start of us about ten minutes, and we found a large party of women loudly bewailing the fate of the unhappy suf- ferers. We shut ourselves up immediately, not being in a situation to bear company. We found at the hotel some Oxford friends, who arrived on the evening of the day of our ascent, in the midst of the thunder-storm, and were much alarmed at seeing our names in the travel- lers’ book. During the day before they had observed us on the Grands Mulets, and that very morning had seen us on our way to the Grand Plateau. They ascertained our number 158 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. to be eleven, and a few hours afterwards saw us return with only eight in the party. They even took notice that the two or three last were perpetually stopping and looking behind them. From these signs the landlord of the hotel anticipated the melancholy tidings first brought by poor Balmat. «The next morning we sent for the relatives of the deceased. Fortunately neither of them was married, but Carrier had left an aged father, who had been wholly dependent on him for support. We left with him what we could spare; and at Geneva a subscription was soon opened for them, under the auspices of the amiable Professor Pictet, who generously exerted himself in their behalf. Our meeting with old Balmat was the most affecting of all. He had been one of Saussure’s guides, and was brother to the hero surnamed Mont Blane. On my commend- ing the bravery of his poor son Pierre, the tears started into his eyes, which kindled for a moment at the compliment, and he grasped my hand with DR. HAMEL’S FATAL ATTEMPT. 159 ardour as he replied, ¢ Oui, Monsieur, vous avez raison, il étoit méme trop brave, comme son pere”’ The officer soon attended to conduct the proces-verbal. He was the brother of our host, and noways inclined to abate anything of the respect due to his office. He dictated from his seat, while his amanuensis wrote. He was a great stickler for grammatical accuracy, and there was a long discussion about the respective claims of an indicative and subjunctive mood, during which he laid down the law with the most ludicrous gravity and self-importance. Dr. Hamel and three of the guides were examined upon oath as to the cause of the misfortune. They all agreed in referring it solely to accident. About two o’clock we set off on our return for Chamounix in two sharabands, and we were glad to recognise in one of the drivers our late captain, Joseph Marie Couttet, who had thrown off his chasseur’s pelisse, and now appeared in the costume of postilion. Our parting with the inhabitants of the village was truly affecting. 160 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. The sympathy which we could not help display- ing in the grief of the surviving relatives had won all their honest hearts, and many pressed round our oul 5p hood of the guides are displayed. 1 They appear to have a miraculous instinct in choosing a practi oute i oa cable route amongst its clefts, and leap over the chasms that yawn on every side with a boldness and certainty that is really wonderful. We passed several enormous rocks which had been split from the parent mountains by the force of stor og torms or avalanches, and were now riding on the surface of the glacier. Devouassoud told us that, in time, from the constant advance of the glacier, these blocks would come down to Chamouni ; but this, of course, would be the journey of ¢ at In hi ] y of centuries. He added, that in his own recollection they had moved several yards. We were shown, near one of them, a fearful hole in — a — Eh. a ———— No 190 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. the ice, which the guides termed Le Moulin. Its depth was unknown—it had been plumbed to three hundred feet ; and a torrent was r a noise that was oaring and chafing within 1t with perfectly terrific. To those who feel any a curious phenomenon to be interest in the nature of a glacier, there 1s seen during the excursion to the J «t noticed. At this spot unite : — the Glacier du the Glacier du ardin, near the moulin 1 have ju three large glaciers Lechaud, from the Jorasses ; Taléfre from the heights around it; and the Glacier du Tacul, direct from Mont Blane. These three leviathans of the Alp p up a continued warfare with each in which the Tacul has s, each pressing onwards, kee other for superiority, the advantage, from its magnitude and line of descent; and a scene of inconceivable confusion «the result—their opposing power splitting and tossing about huge cubes of granite, of twenty or thirty feet square, like so many nutshells. Beyond this point, the surface of the Glacier du A DAY ON THE GLACIERS. 191 Tacul is perfectly level ; and, to adopt Devouas soud’s expression, “a diligence might be ri along it, if it could only be got there.” - We crossed the moraines of these large fields of 1ce, and immediately commenced ascending the Couvercle—a steep and lofty rock hooting up directly from the glacier. If the passage of the Fonts had been the most hazardous part of our journey, probably this was the most fatiouine. The sun was shining with oppressive force directly upon us, and we were obliced to rest every ten or twelve steps to draw our breath ; the altitude we had attained tending, no doubt, although but in a slight degree, o add to our exhaustion, for we were now more than eh thousand feet above the level of the sea, and the ascent so precipitous, that in climbing up the steep sides, our feet were generally in close Samah to the heads of those immediately The Glacier du Taléfre, in all the beauty of its whi Tami hite pyramids, and sparkling, unsullied 192 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. waves, now broke upon us; and quitting the oround of the Couvercle, we followed De- vouassoud as he advanced upon its treacherous The heat of the day had thawed 1ts r, and we sank knee deep, at every dye of half-melted snow and ice. sure surface. upper laye step, in a fo | ) The guides were most urgent in begging us 10 tread as nearly as possible in their footmarks, as come of the tracks which appeared smooth and easy of passage, were merely bridges of snow thrown over chasms of immeasurable depth, which the slightest weight would cause to fall. Wherever there existed a doubt as to the prac- ticability of crossing from one wave of the glacier to another, Devouassoud sounded the snow care- fully with his ice-pole, nor would he allow us to move until he had ascertained its firmness ; and yet 1 was informed by Mr. Auldjo, that this brave guide, who knows not what danger means amidst the peaks and crevices of his own glaciers, was so frightened by a slight ruffle of the water on crossing the lake of Geneva, that he laid A DAY ON THE GLACIERS. 193 himself down at the bottom of the boat, and cried like a child. About half-past twelve we landed, if I may use the term, on the edge of the verdant ledge that forms the Jardin, heartily glad to arrive at the termination of our journey. We ascended its green slope for about fifty yards, and then threw ourselves down upon the ground, com- pletely “dead beat,” whilst the guides disen- cumbered themselves of their knapsacks, which contained our provisions. We had now leisure to regard the scene around us, and it was of an imposing and extraordinary nature. Imme- diately in front, the long, unbroken surface of the Glacier du Tacul ran directly to the summit of Mont Blane, whose apex was invested with a light, fleecy cloud, which was perpetually drifting to leeward, and somewhat resembled the smoke from a chimney. “Mont Blanc is smoking his cigar,” said Devouassoud; “so much the better —we shall have a fine evening.” Many hundred feet below us were the glistening waves of the 0 194 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. Mer de Glace, bounded to our right by the Aiguille des Charmoz, and on the left by the Grandes Jorasse ; at the foot of which range an English lady and her daughter once slept, amidst the eternal snow, during their extraordinary passage of the Col du Géant. The Jardin itself was a small grassy hillock, at the side of a natural basin of vast dimensions formed of granite rocks, the only outlet to which was by the precipitous fall of the Glacier du Taléfre. Blocks of gneiss and granite, the débris of the winter tempests, were scattered about it, with several small pieces of crystal, and some Alpine plants were blooming in the more sheltered crevices; but beyond 1ts limits all was desolation and silence. Even a bee attracted our attention, as it flew humming by the spot we had selected for our repast; we felt that, had we been alone, the very presence of an insect would have enlivened our solitude. Devouassoud informed me that the Jardin was a favourite resort of the Chamouni chamois- hunters, in consequence of its being the nearest A DAY ON THE GLACIERS. 195 pasturage for these animals during the autumnal months. We did full justice to the frugal meal which the guides had provided for us; and although it was confined to a piece of plain cold boiled mutton, with bread and salt, I thought I had never tasted anything so delicious. We had also three bottles of light claret, which we drank from portable leather cups, and we gave toasts and sang songs until the rocks echoed again with our merriment. We saw several corks and broken bottles lying about, which gave traces of former revellers having been to the Jardin; indeed, we were told that, now and then, young J > ladies were found bold enough to make the attempt. How on earth they contrive to traverse the Ponts, or climb the Couvercle, 1 cannot very well make out; yet, although the expedition is certainly one not particularly calculated for females to undertake, we were rather pleased than annoyed at hearing that the majority of the fair adventurers were English girls. 0 2 196 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. About two o'clock, p.m., we once more pre- pared to start, being perfectly refreshed by our repast. We had scarcely left the rock, when an accident occurred, which might have thrown a sad gloom over our day’s enterprise. One of my companions, who appeared a little excited by the wine and novelty of our situation combined, instead of keeping in the wake of the guides, as we descended the rapid pitch of the Glacier du Taléfre, amused himself by sliding down the small slopes, in spite of our remonstrances, guiding himself with his baton. By some accl- dent, the pole hitched in the ice as he was hold- ing it before him, and the top of 1t catching him under the chin, threw him violently upon his back, at the same time grazing his neck severely. He must have fallen with some force, as the pole snapped Im two with the shock. Losing his equilibrium immediately, he glided rapidly down the wave of ice, and the next instant was com- pletely hidden from us in a large drift of snow. We were exceedingly alarmed, and called out A DAY ON THE GLACIERS. 197 loudly to know if he was safe; no answer was returned, and we stood in horrible suspense, until we saw him, a minute afterwards, emerge from the side of the drift furthest from us, and wave his cap, which signal we returned with cheers. We directly gave Devouassoud our poles, who tied them together with our handkerchiefs, and « by this means assisted our companion up the opposite side of the trough, if it may be called so. He was more frightened than hurt, except the graze under his chin, and did not seem inclined to venture any more out of the track. The guides said, that it was just as probable as not for the slope to have ended in a crevice, when nothing could have saved him, had it been sufficiently large for him to have fallen into; and upon the Mer de Glace they usually average from two to ten feet in breadth. I had expected that we should descend to Montanvert in much less time than we had performed the upward journey, but I found my calculations totally wrong, as the afternoon sun 198 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. had thawed the whole surface of the glacier, and we were obliged to walk with great caution, occasionally losing our shoes for a moment in the soft snow. We found some small piles of stones and pieces of ice, which the guides had built up as we came along, of great utility in pointing our track in returning, since nothing is more easy than to lose the path amidst the intricacies and crevices of the glacier. We heard several avalanches fall as we descended, but they were too remote to cause any appre- hension, although their echoing cue had some- thing awful in it, in these remote solitudes. As we advanced lower down the Mer de Glace, we could discern the chalet on the Flegere, which forms the northern boundary of the valley of Chamouni, opposite the glacier; and in another half hour we were within view of Montanvert, where we had taken breakfast in the morning. We were now enabled to make better progress, as the ice was firmer, being shaded by the mountains that encompassed it, and our footing A DAY ON THE GLACIERS. SOURCE OF THE ARVEIRON, AT THE FOOT OF THE MER DE GLACE . was surer, from the day’s practice; indeed, we almost ran along ledges of ice, that we had with timidity crept across in the morning. The passage of the Ponts was, however, quite as difficult as we had before found it, possibly from our being compelled to grasp every projection with our left hand. 200 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. At half-past five we reached the hut at Mon- tanvert, and in two hours more descended to Chamouni, having been on our legs since five in the morning, with the exception of the intervals of breakfast and dinner. We gave the guides ten francs each, and the expenses of our break- fasts and dinners, including the wine, were eighteen francs more. This we paid between us, and I can safely affirm I never laid out money with greater pleasure than in making this ex- cursion, which, without partaking of the danger and outlay of the ascent of Mont Blane, is still highly interesting, and abounding in novel and stupendous effects. CHAPTER IX. THE AUTHOR’S ASCENT IN 1851. URING my subsequent visits to Chamouni, I always put up at the Hotel de Londres. It was by no means so grand or well-appointed an esta- blishment as the new Hotel Royal across the river; but old associations made it very agreeable to me. They had treated me very well in my old student days, and Madame Tairraz was always indefati- gable in her courtesies to all the visitors, how- ever humble their appointments. It was almost worth while being slightly ill there, to experience her kind domestic attentions. Jean Tairraz, who lived opposite, was a very honest, hard-working man, with a large family, 202 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. and he was usually my companion. We used to walk about together, and talk of the practicability of ascending Mont Blanc; and at last I pro- mised him that the next time I came to Cha- mouni, we would make the attempt. All the winter through, the intention haunted me. 1 knew, from my engagements in period- ical literature, that the effort must be a mere scamper—a spasm almost when it was made; but at length a free fortnight presented itself. I found my old knapsack in a store-room, and 1 beat out the moths and spiders, and filled 1t as of old; and on the first of August, 1851, I left London Bridge in the mail-train of the South- Eastern Railway, with my Lord Mayor and other distinguished members of the corporation, who were going to the fétes at Paris in honour of the Exhibition, and who, not having a knap- sack under their seat, lost all their luggage, as is no doubt chronicled in the City archives. I had not undergone the least training for my work. I came from my desk to the railway, THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 203 from the railway to the diligence, and from that to the char-a-banc; and on the night of my arrival at Chamouni I sent for Tairraz, and we sat upon a bit of timber on the edge of the Arve, consulting upon the practicability of the ascent. He feared the weather was going to change, and that I was scarcely in condition to attempt it; but he would call a meeting of the chief guides at his little curiosity-shop next morning, and let me know the result. I made up my mind, at the same time, to walk as much as I could ; and, on the second day of my arrival, I went twice to the Mer de Glace, and, indeed, crossed to the other side by myself. In the court-yard of the Hotel de Londres, on the Friday afternoon, I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of three young gentlemen, who had come from Ouchy, on the Lake of Geneva, with the intention, also, of trying the ascent. It was immediately settled that we should unite our caravans; and that same evening, Jean Tairraz, Jean Tairraz the elder, Jean Carrier, and Gedeon Balmat, met 204 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. us, to settle our plans. The weather had unfor- tunately changed. It rained constantly. The wind came up the valley—always a bad sign— and the clouds were so low that we could not even see the Aiguilles, nor the top of the Brevent. But so determined were we to go, that, at all risks, we should have ventured. Every arrange- ment of food, covering, &ec., was left to M. Edouard Tairraz, the landlord of the excellent Hotel de Londres; and it was understood that we were all to keep in readiness to start at half an hour’s notice. My young friends, who had been in regular training for some time, continued to perform prodigies of pedestrianism. I did as much as I could; but, unfortunately, was taken so poorly on my return from Montanvert on the Monday—1I suspect from sudden overwork, and sitting about in the wet—that I was obliged to lie down on my bed for four or five hours on my return to the hotel, and, in very low spirits, 1 began to despair of success. All this time the weather never improved: it rained unceasingly. We almost rattled the THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 205 barometer to pieces in our anxiety to detect a change; and Jean made an excursion with me to the cottage of one of the Balmats—the very same house spoken of in my old book, “The Peasants of Chamouni”’—who was reported to have a wonderful and valuable weather-guide, the like of which had never been seen before in the valley, called Le Menteur by the neighbours, because 1t always foretold the reverse of what ~ would happen. This turned out to be one of the little Dutch houses, with the meteorological lady and gentleman occupiers. The lady, in her summer costume, was most provokingly abroad, and the worst fears were entertained. Whilst, however, we were at dinner that day, all the fog rolled away clean out of the valley, as if by magic. The mists rose up the aiguilles like the flocks of steam from a valley railway; the sun broke out, and M. Tairraz cried out from the top of the table — Voila le beau temps qui vient: vous ferez une belle ascension, Messieurs; et demain.” We thought no more of dinner that day; all 2006 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. was now hurry and preparation. At every stove ‘1 the kitchen, fowls, and legs and shoulders of mutton, were turning. The guides were beating up the porters, who were to carry the heavier baggage as far as the edge of the glacier; the peasants were soliciting us to be allowed to join the party as volunteers; and the inhabitants of the village, generally, had collected in the small the church and the Hotel de open space between I’Union, and were talking over the chances of the excursion—for the mere report of an attempt puts them all in a bustle. We walked about Chamouni that night with heads erect, and an imposing step. People pointed at us, and came from the hotels to see what we were like. For that evening, at least, we were evidently great persons. The sun went down magnificently, and every- thing promised a glorious day on the morrow. I collected all my requisites. Our host lent me a pair of high gaiters, and Madame Tairraz gave me a fine pair of scarlet garters to tie them up THE ’ AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 207 with. I also bought a green veil, and Jean brought me a pair of blue spectacles. In m knapsack I put other shoes, socks, and trousers, and an extra shirt; and I got anew spike driven into my baton, for the glacier. I was still far from well, but the excitement pulled me through all discomfort. I did not sleep at all that night from anxiety as to the success of the under. taking: I knew all the danger; and when I made a little parcel of my money, and the few things I had in my “kit,” and told my friend Mr. William Beverley, who had come with ne from London, to take them home if I did not return, I am afraid my attempt to be careless about the matter was a failure. I had set a small infernal machine, that made a hideous noise at appointed hours, to go off at six; but I <3 9 J believe I heard every click it gave, all through the night; and I forestalled its office in the morning by getting out of bed myself at sunrise and stopping it. 208 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. Tuesday the 12th, to breakfast. All our guides and porters had a feast in the garden, and were in high spirits—for the glass had gone up half an inch, and not a cloud was to be seen in the sky. Nothing could exceed the bustle of the inn-yard ; everybody had collected to see the start : the men were dividing and portioning the fowls, and bottles of wine, and rugs, and wrappers; something was constantly being forgotten, and nobody could find whatever was of most 1mport- ance to them; and the good-tempered cook— another Tairraz — kept coming forth from the kitchen with so many additional viands, that I began to wonder when our stores would be com- pleted. The list of articles of food which we took up was as follows :— Note No. 1. PROVISIONS FOR THE ASCENT OF MONT BLANC. Hotel de Londres, Chamouni, August 12, 1851. Francs. 60 bottles of Vin Ordinaire 6 do. Bordeaux THE ’ AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851 10 bottle : of St. George 15 do. St. Jean ... 3 do. Cognac . do. syrup of raspberries 6 do. lemonade 2 do. o 20 loaves champs - 10 small cheeses ... 6 packets of chocolate 6 do. sugar 4 do. prunes ... 4 do. raisins 2 do. salt 4 wax candles 6 lemons “. lost menT e Lebo qT rn pe RR PE - Cot eee wel LL... 0B 35 small do. ... ... Lo cee 87 — 456 Total | pe half-past seven we started : and as we e ved € Inn, and traversed the narrow ill paved S 1 reets of Chamouni towards the bridge, I believe we formed the lar gest caravan th off together. at had ever gone Each of us had four guides, making P THE STORY OF MONT THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851 ia 4 aR } FRY) LES PELERINS, twenty in all ;* and the porters and volunteers I may reckon at another score; besides which, FE there was a rabble rout of friends, and relations, Crem. and sweethearts, and boys, some of whom came — # The following were the names of our guides, copied from my certificate of the ascent: —Jean Tairraz, Jean Tairraz, Jean Carrier, Gedeon Balmat, Michel Couttet, Frederic Tairraz, Pierre, Cachat, Michel Couttet, Francois Cachat, Joseph Tair- raz, Joseph Tissay, Edouard Carrier, Michel Devouassoud, a considerable distance with us Auguste Devouassoud, Francois Favret. One guide—T forget I had a mule waiting f. . . . g Ior me a “ his name—Wwas poorly, and could not sign, the next morning. t the bridle-road that runs throug rough the fields towards the dirty little vill P 2 age = dima RR eT EH TER SRE mr = 5 Ch TRAIN "EE THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. ~ 21: { of Les Pélerins—for 1 wished to keep myself as fresh as I could for the real work. I do not think I gained anything by this, for the brute was exceedingly troublesome to manage up the rude steep path and amongst the trees. 1 expect my active young companions had the best of it on their own good legs. Dressed, at present, in light boating attire, they were types of fellows in first- rate fibrous muscular condition ; and their sunny 2ood temper, never once clouded during the Journey, made everything bright and cheering. | The first two hours of the ascent presented no remarkable features, either of difficulty or pro- spect. The path was very steep and rugged, through a stunted copse of pines and shrabs, between which we saw on our right the ghisten- ing ice-towers of the lower part of the Glacier des Bossons. On our left was the ravine, along which the torrent courses to form the Cascade des Pélerins. The two nice girls who keep the little chdlet at the waterfall, came across the wood to wish us God speed. Julie Favret, the prettier THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 213 of the two, was said to be engaged to our guide Jean Carrier—a splendid young fellow—so they lingered behind our caravan some little time ; and when Jean rejoined us, an unmercifyl shower of badinage awaited him. We kept on in single file, winding backwards and forwards amongst the trees, until we came to the last habitation up the mountain, which is called the Chélet la Para; and here I w de as glad to quit my mule, and proceed with the rest on foot. From this point the vegetation gradually became more scanty ; and at last, even the fir-trees no longer grew about us. The hill-side was bare and arid, covered with the débris of the spring avalanches —amongst which tufts of alpine rhododendron were blowing—and some goats were trying v ery hard to pick up a living, Our caravan was now spread about far and wide; but at half-past nine We came to an enormous block of granite, called the Pierre Pointue, and here we reunited our forces and rested awhile. During our halt the porters readjusted their packs; and some who EE a DM EEL AR Tn RT Eas AE 214 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. had carried or dragged up billets of wood with them, which they found on the way, chopped them into lengths, and tied them on to their knapsacks. The weight some of these men marched under was surprising. Hitherto we had been on the ridge of one of the mighty buttresses of Mont Blane, which hem in the olaciers between them; we had now to cling along its side to gain the ice. This part of the journey requires a strong head : here, and towards the termination of the ascent, dizziness would be fatal. Along the side of the mountain, which 1s all but perpendicular, the goats have worn a rude track, scarcely a foot broad. On your left your shoulder rubs the rock ; and on your right there is a frightful precipice, at the bottom of which, hundreds of feet below you, is that con- fusion of ice, granite blocks, stones, and dirty roaring water, which forms in its ensemble the houndary of a glacier. The view is superb, but you dare not look at it. It is only when the loose ground crumbles away beneath your right mm RD T ’ SS J R THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 215 foot, and you nearly slide away over the precipice, —you would do so if the guide did not seize you by the arm with the sudden grip of a vice,— that you give up staring about you, and do nothing but carefully watch the footsteps of the man who 18 going on before. The path goes up and down —its gradual tendency, however, is to descend : and in about twenty minutes we had arrived ut the bottom of the ravine. Here we had another half-hour’s troublesome scramble over loose boulders, which threw and twisted our ankles about in every direction, until at last we gained the second station, if it may so be called, of our journey—another huge rock called the Pierre a Echelle, under shelter of which a ladder is left from one year to the other, and is carried on by the guides, to assist them in passing the crevices on the glacier. The remains of an old one were likewise lying here, and the rungs of it were immediately seized for firewood. We were now four thousand feet above Cha- mouni, and the wonders of the glacier world 216 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. were breaking upon us. The edge of the ice was still half an hour’s walk beyond this rock, but it appeared close at hand—literally within a stone’s throw. So vast is everything that sur- rounds the traveller — there is such an utter absence of any comprehensible standard of com- parison—his actual presence is so insignificant— a mere unheeded, all but invisible speck on this mountain world—that every idea of proportionate size or distance is lost. And this impossibility of calculation is still further aided by the bright clear air, seen through which the granite out- lines, miles away, are as sharply defined as those of the rocks you have quitted but half an hour ago. Far below us, long after the torrents had lost themselves in little grey threads amongst the pine-woods, we saw the valley of Chamouni, with its fields and pastures parcelled out into. parti-coloured districts, like the map of an estate sale; and we found the peaks of other mountains beginning to show above and beyond the lofty THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 217 Brevent. Above us, mighty plains of snow stretched far and away in all directions; and through them the ice-crags and pinnacles of the two glaciers, Bossons and Tacconay, were every- Where visible. On either side of us, at the distance perhaps of a couple of miles from each other, were the two huge buttresses of Mont Blanc which form the channel of the glacier before alluded to. Along one of these we had come up from the valley : De Saussure chose the other when he made his ascent in 1787. Hich * Oo up the sides of these mountains were wondrous Soriaes of ice, of incalculable weight, threaten- ing to fall every instant. Pieces now and then tumbled down with a noise like distant thunder ; but they were not large enough to be dangerous, Had a block of several tons descended at once its momentum would have carried it along the glacier, sweeping everything before it; and of this occurrence the guides are constantly in dread. We rested here nearly half an hour ; and it — R RX a dy $ i I .,., a 218 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. was not until we unpacked some of our cold fowls from the Galignanis in which they were rolled, that we found our knives and forks had been left behind. Tairraz thought Balmat had them—and Balmat had told Carrier to look after them—and Carrier had seen them on the bench outside the hotel just as we started, and expected young Devouassoud had put them in his knap- sack—and so it went on. But nobody, in the end, had brought them. Most of us, however, had pocket-knives; and what we could not carve we pulled to pieces with our fingers, and made a famous meal. The morning was so bright, and the air so pure, and the view so grand, and we were already so fatigued — or fancied we were—that I believe, if the guides had not beaten us up again into marching order, we should have dawdled about this Pierre a Echelle for half the day. So we took our batons and started off again ; and after a trouble- some scuffle over the grimy border of the glacier, we reached its clean edge, and bade good-by to THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. PASSING THE GLACIER firm footing and visible safety for the rest of the excursion. The first portion of the journey across the Glacier des Bossons is easy enough, provided always that the outer crust of the snow lying upon 1t 1s tolerably hard. We marched on in single file, the guides taking it by turns to lead (as the first man had of course the heaviest work) i ol biggie CE er a CR EN SS HR IS EE SE REET 220 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. amidst cliffs and hillocks, and across sloping fields and uplands, all of dazzling whiteness. I here observed, for the first time, the intense dark-blue colour which the sky apparently assumes. This may be only by comparison with the unsubdued glare from the snow on all sides — since, on making a kind of lorgnette with my two hands, and looking up, as I might have done at a picture, there was nothing unusual in the tint. Our veils and glasses now proved great comforts, for the sun was scorching, and the blinding light from the glaciers actually distressing. By degrees our road became less practicably easy. We had to make zigzag paths up very steep pitches, and go out of our line to circumvent threatening ice-blocks or suspected crevices. The porters, too, began to grumble, and there was a perpetual wrangling going on between them and the guides as to the extent of their auxiliary march ; and another bottle of wine had constantly to be added to the promised reward when they returned to Chamoun. All this time TH ’S v E AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 291 we had been steadily ascending ; and at last the olacier w glacier was so broken, and the crevices so frequent and hugely gaping, that the guides tied us and themselves together with cords, leaving a space of about eight feet between each two men and prepared for serious work. The traveller who has only seen the Mer de Glace can form no idea of the terrific beauty of the upper part of the Glacier des Bossons. He remembers the lower portions of the latter which appears to rise from the very cornfields and orchards of Chamouni, with its towers and ruins of the purest ice, like a long fragment of quartz inconceivably magnified ; and a few steps from the edge of Montanvert will show him the icy chasms of the Mer. But they have little in common with the wild and awful tract we were now preparing to traverse. The Glacier des Bossons, splitting away from that of Tacconay 1s rent and torn and tossed about by convulsions scarcely to be comprehended ; and the alternate action of the nightly frost and the afternoon sun PEE a EE ER Tra TA GR Ni CARR AE ET THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. on this scene of splendid desolation and horror, produces the most extraordinary effects. Huge bergs rise up of a lovely pale sea-green colour, perforated by arches decorated every day with fresh icicles many feet in length; and through these arches one sees other fantastic masses, some thrown like bridges across yawning gulf, and others planted like old castles on jutting rocks commanding valleys and gorges, all of ice. There is here no plain surface to walk upon; your only standing-room is the top of the barrier that divides two crevices; and as this is broad or narrow, terminating in another frightful gulf, or continuous with another treacherous ice-wall, or rapid. The breadth of the so can you be slow crevice varies with each one you arrive at, and these individually vary constantly, so that the most experienced guide can have no fixed plan of route. The fissure you can leap across to-day, becomes by to-morrow a yawning gulf. Young Devouassoud now took the lead, with a light axe, to cut out footsteps and hand-holds THE A ’ UTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 293 with when necessary, and we all followed. very cautiously placing our feet in the prints read, made. ““Cloisez vos pas,” was a phrase we hand every mute. Our progress was necessarily ver slow; and sometimes we brought up ie for a quarter of an hour, whilst a council was held as to the best way of surmountine a Jif. culty. Once only the neck of ice along which we had to pass was so narrow that I referred crossing 1 I g 1t saddle-fashion, and so working myself S on with my hands. It was at points similar to this that I was most astonished at the darine and sure-footedness of the guides. They took the most extraordinary jumps, alighting upon banks of ice that shelved at once clean Jon to the edges of frightful crevices, to which their feet appeared to cling like those of flies. And yet we were all shod alike, in good stout “shoot ing-shoes,” with a double row of hobnails ; b where I was sliding and tumbling chon, Shen stood like rocks. In all this there was, however little physical exertion for us; it was simpl ; y a AE LI CERT EER ad NR TEU “ + = LON aid smb Eo mae SRST 994 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. matter of nerve and steady head. Where the cre- vice was small, we contrived to jump over it with tolerable coolness : and where it was over three or four feet in breadth, we made a bridge of the ladder, and walked over on the rounds. There is no great difficulty, to be sure, in doing this, when a ladder lies upon the ground; but with a chasm of unknown depth below it, it is satis- factory to get to the other side as quickly as possible. At a great many points the snow made bridges, which we crossed easily enough. Only one was permitted to go over at a time ; so that, if it gave way, he might remain suspended by the rope attached to the main body. Sometimes we had to make long detours to get to the end of a crevice, too wide to cross any way ; at others, we would find ourselves all wedged together, not daring to move, on a neck of ice that at first I could scarcely have thought adequate to have afforded footing to a goat. When we were thus fixed, somebody cut notches in the ice, and S THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 225 climbed up or down, as the case required ; then the knapsacks were pulled up or lowered; then we followed, and, finally, the rest got on as they could. One scramble we had to make was rather frightful. The reader must imagine a valley of 1ce, very narrow, but of unknown depth. Along the middle of this there ran ga cliff, also of ice, very narrow at the top, and ending suddenly the surface of which might have been fifteen foot lower than the top of this valley on either side and on it we could not stand two abreast, A rough notion of a section of this position may be gained from the letter W, depressing the centre angle, and imagining that the cliff on which we were standing. The feet of our ladders were set firm on the neck of the cliff, and then it was allowed to lean over the crevice until its other end touched the wall, so to speak, of the valley Its top round was, even then, seven or eight feet below where we wanted to get. One of the young guides went first with his axe, and con- trived r 1 , by some extraordinary succession of Q . . ny a i CM PEEL RE SNR oT ER pS A A i A THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. THE CREVICE IN THE GLAC1ER DU TACCONAY, I S 2 gymnastic feats, to get safely to the top, although oO we all trembled for him—and, indeed, for our- ] ; a selves; for, tied as we all were, and on such THE AUTHOR'S ASCENT IN 1851. 227 ~ treacherous standing, had he tumbled he would have pulled the next after him, and so on, one following the other, until we should all have gone hopelessly to perdition. Once safe, he soon helped his fellows, and, one after the other, we were drawn up, holding to the cord for our lives. The only accident that befel me on the journey happened here. Being pulled quickly up, my ungloved hand encountered a sharp bit of granite frozen in the ice, and this cut through the veins on my wrist. The wound bled furiously for a few minutes; but the excitement of the scramble had been so great that I actually did not know I was hurt until I saw the blood on the snow. T tied my handkerchief round the cut, and it troubled me no more ; but, from such hurried surgery, it has left a pretty palpable scar. Our porters would go no farther; promises and bribes were now in vain; and they gave up their luggage, and set off on their way back to Chamouni. We now felt, indeed, a forlorn hope ; Q 2 Le ad iia nie ies Brent n mes a CE AS CE A SE ea tL * SR a ———— 228 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. but fortunately we did not encounter anything worse than we had already surmounted ; and about four o’clock in the afternoon we got to the station at which we were to remain until midnight. CHAPTER X. THE NIGHT-BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW. Tue Grands Mulets are two or three conical rocks which rise like island peaks from the snow and ice at the head of the Glacier des Bossons, and were they loftier, would probably be termed aiguilles. They are visible to the naked eye from Chamouni, appearing like little cones on the mountain side. Looking up to them, their left-hand face, or outer side, as 1 shall call it, goes down straight at once, some hundred feet, to the glacier. On the right hand, and in front, you can scramble up to them pretty well, and gain your resting-place, which is about thirty feet from the summit, either by climbing the rock from the base, which is very steep and fatiguing, or by proceeding farther up along the snow, and then returning a little way, when you Le sd Le aa SE ed EET NAS SU a A SE 230 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. find yourself nearly on a level with your shelf— for such it is. A familiar example of what 1 mean is given in a house built on a steep hill, where the back-door may be on the third story. The ascent of this rock was the hardest work we had yet experienced: it was like climbing up an immense number of flag-stones, of different heights, set on their edges. Before we got half- way, we heard them firing guns at Chamouni, which showed us that we were being watched from the village ; and this gave us fresh energy. At last we reached something like a platform, ten or twelve feet long, and three or four broad ; and below this was another tolerably level space, with a low parapet of loose stones built round it, whilst here and there were several nooks and corners which might shelter people on emergency: We acknowledged the salute at Chamouni, by sticking one of our batons into a crevice, and tying a handkerchief to the top of it; and then sot to work to clear away the snow from our resting-place. Contrary to all my expectation, THE NIGHT-BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW. 231 ~ the heat we here experienced was most sultry and even distressing. Those who have noted how long the granite posts and walls of the Italian cities retain the heat after the sun has gone down, will understand that this rock upon which we were was quite warm wherever the rays fell upon it, although in every nook of shade the snow still remained unthawed. As soon as we had arranged our packs and bundles, we began to change our clothes, which were tolerably well wet through with trudging and tumbling about among the snow; “and cutting a number of pegs, we strewed our gar- ments about the crannies of the rocks to dry. I put on two shirts, two pairs of lamb’s-wool socks, a thick pair of Scotch plaid trousers, a “Templar” worsted headpiece, and a common blouse ; I ouse; and my companions were attired in a Sila manner. There was now great activity in the camp. Some of the guides ranged the wine bottles side by side in the snow; others unpacked the refreshment knapsacks; others J J ES LL i ne pono Sid . = Ey SRR aE Se eS EN ER ERR a —— cau li s Sent-nut Erp hia . 232 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. again, made a rude fireplace, and filled a stewpan with snow to melt. All this time it was so hot, and the sun was so bright, that I began to think the guide who told De Saussure he should take a parasol up with him, did not deserve to have heen laughed at. As soon as our wild bivouac assumed a little appearance of order, two of the guides were sent up the glacier to go a oreat way ahead, and then return and report upon the state of the snow on the plateaux. When they had started, we perched ourselves about on the comparatively level spaces of the rock, and with knife and fingers began our dinner. We had scarcely commenced when our party was joined by a young Irishman and a guide, who had taken advantage of the beaten track left behind us, and marched up on our traces with tolerable ease, leaving to us the honour (and the expense) of cutting out the path. My younger friends, with a little ebullition of university feeling, proposed, under such circum- THE NIGHT-BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW. 233 stances, that we should give him a reception in keeping with the glacier; but I thought it would be so hyper-punctilious to show temper here, on the Grands Mulets rocks, up and away 1n the regions of eternal snow, some thousand feet from the level world, that I ventured on a very mild hint to this effect, which was received with all the acquiescence and good temper imaginable. So we asked him to contribute his stores to our table, and, I dare say, should have oot on ver well together; but the guides began wo able about what they considered a breach of etiquette and presently, with his attendant, he moved away to the next rock. Afterwards another “follower” arrived with his guide, and he sub- sequently reached the summit. We kept high festival that afternoon on the Grands Mulets. One stage of our journey— and that one by no means the easiest—had been achieved without the slightest hurt or harm The consciousness of success thus far, the pure transparent air, the excitement attached to the A ARMA TIAN sectors nam rem i SAA ota LO pest rene i AR ay pn Ea os : . ‘ Ra So pO er a EER ‘3 a yeas THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. 3 JLETS. THE BIVOUAC ON THE GRANDS MULE n in which we found ourselves, and y of the surround- very positio the strange bewildering novelt ing scenery, produced a flowing exhilaration of spirits that I had never before ex ; feeling was shared by all, and we laughed an perienced. The THE NIGHT-BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW. 235 sang, and made the guides contribute whatever they could to the general amusement, and told them such stories as would translate well in return; until, I believe, that dinner will never be forgotten by them. A fine diversion was afforded by racing the empty bottles down the glacier. We flung them off from the rock as far as we were able, and then watched their course. Whenever they chanced to point neck first down the slope, they started off with inconceivable velocity, leaping the crevices by their own im- petus, until they were lost in the distance. The excitement of the guides during this amusement was very remarkable: a stand of betting men could not have betrayed more at the Derby. Their anxiety when one of the bottles approached a crevice was intense; and if the gulf was cleared, they perfectly screamed with delight, “Voici un bon coureur I’ or, « Tiens! comme il saute bien I” burst from them; and Le grand sarréte!”’ “Il est perdu—quel dommage I’ “ Non—il marche encore I’ could not have been uttered with more EAE fan a 2s A tet © dr PS 236 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. earnestness had they been watching a herd of chamois. It got somewhat chilly as the sun left the Mulets, but never so cold as to be uncomfortable. With my back against the rock, and a common railway rug over my feet and legs, 1 needed My knapsack was handy at my elbow old companion that had often served for my pillow on the and so I had nothing else. to lean upon—the same Mediterranean and the Nile; altogether the finest couch upon which a Ww eary traveller ever rested. 1 have as yet purposely scribing the glorious view for the details of our bivouac would the arrange- abstained from de- above, around, and beneath us, have interrupted me as much as ments actually did, until we got completely by himself in most conviv « God save the Queen” to his guide. saw his lantern glimmering ight of the second about before up’ singing Soon afterwards we traces; and the 1 aspirant was also visible, moving on our his start. The snowy side Mulets and the Rochers y three gigantic steps of Mont Blane, between the Grands Rouges near the summit, 18 formed b y <0 be called, one above the other, if they ma each of which 1s many Between each 1s a comparatively of glacier; and the topmost of these, which is across, is called the Grand hundred feet high. level platform two or three miles Plateau. Its position can be made 0 from Chamouni with the naked eye. Up these and for more than two ut very well slopes our road now lay ; hours we followed one anothe the level places, and now slowly zag up the steeps. Very little r in silence—now trudging over climbing, 1 21Z- NIGHT-MARCH ON THE GRAND PLATEAU. 247 talking went on, for we knew that we should soon need all our breath. The walking here however, was by no means difficult; for the snow was hard and crisp, and we made very good progress, although for a long time we saw the red speck of fire, far below us, gleaming on the Grands Mulets. The stars were out “and the air was sharp and cold, but only Jisagrecably biting when the lightest puff’ of wind came This was not very often, for we were heltered on all sides by the heights and azguilles around us The march from the Mulets to the foot of the Grand Plateau was the most unexciting part of the journey. It was one continuous, steadily ascending tramp of three hours and a half—now and then retracing our footmarks with a little grumbling, when it was found, on gaining the neck of a ridge of snow, that there as an impracticable crevice on the other side; but the general work was not much more than that of ascending the Mer de Glace, on the route to the Jardin. Whenever we came to a stand-still J Rm a —— TT ari ee — SS ———— Ee em tt csstsacre in eg AMO ase Te Sr eas ma WN RN AN id Bl caves wt Lo - OT AK ca ND ie AR A mye pa Aa as ri ws . vd a oR HE AN WE SET AL ARE Pr. » i RR g : h ces : Cd A RR ARR ei a 4 RRR er BCR Be Ee RRR Re tr mE 248 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. our feet directly got very cold; and the remedy for this was to drive them well into the snow. The guides were anxious that we should con- stantly keep in motion; and, indeed, they were never still themselves during these halts. We had nearly gained the edge of the Grand Plateau when our caravan was suddenly brought to a stop by an announcement from our leading guide of a huge crevice ahead, to which he could not see any termination; and it was far too wide to cross by any means. It appeared that the guides had looked forward, all along, to some difficulty here—and they were now really anxious; for Tairraz said, that if we could not reach the other side our game was up, and we must return. Auguste Devouassoud went ahead and called for a lantern. We had now only one left alight ; two had burnt out, and the other had been lost, shooting away like a meteor down the glacier antil it disappeared In a gulf. The remaining light was handed forward, and we watched its course with extreme anxiety, hovering along the NIGHT-MARCH ON THE GRAND PLATEAU. 249 edge of the abyss—anon disappearing and then showing again farther off—until at last Auguste shouted out that he had found a pass, and that we could proceed again. We toiled up a very steep cliff of ice, and then edged the crevice which yawned upon our left in a frightful manner,— more terrible in its semi-obscurity than it is possible to convey an impression of— until the danger was over, and we all stood safely upon the Grand Plateau about half-past three in the morning. We had now two or three miles of level walk- ing before us; indeed our road, from one end of the plateau to the other, was on a slight descent. Before we started we took some wine; our appetites were not very remarkable, in spite of all our work ; but a leathern cup of St. George put a little life and warmth into us, for we were chilled with the delay, and it was now intensely cold. We also saw the other lanterns approach- 1 . . ng, and we now formed, as it were, one long caravan. Still in single file we set off again, and 250 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. the effect of our silent march was now unearthly and solemn, to a degree that was almost pain- fully impressive. Mere atoms in this wilderness of perpetual frost, we were slowly advancing over the vast plain—slowly following each other on the track which the leading glimmering dot of licht aided the guide to select. The reflected moonlight from the Dome du Goite, which looked like a huge mountain of frosted silver, threw a cold gleam over the plateau, sufficient to show its immense and ghastly space. High up on our right was the summit of Mont Blanc, apparently as close and as inaccessible as ever; and immediately on our left was the appalling gulf, yawning in the ice of unknown depth, into which the avalanche swept Dr. Hamel’s guides ; and in whose depths, ice-bound and unchanged, they are yet locked. Tairraz crept close to me, and said, through his teeth, almost in a whisper «(Pest ici, Monsieur, que mon frére Auguste est péri en 1820, avec Balmat et Carrier : les pauvres corps sont encore la-bas!—¢a me donne NIGHT-MARCH ON THE GRAND PLATEAU. de peine, toujours, en traversant le Plateau ; et la route est encore périlleuse.” “Et les ava- lanches ?” 1 asked— tombent elles toujours ?”’ “Oui, Monsieur, toujours — nuit et jour. Le plutdt passé, mieux pour nous !” In fact, although physically the easiest, this was the most treacherous part of the entire 0 oo : : scent. A flake of snow or a chip of ice, whirled 251 £2 er SOR RTE a ¥ er 5 Cr En an 5 + 252 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. by the wind from the summit, and increasing as it rolled down the top of the mountain, might at length thunder on to our path, and sweep every- thing before it into the crevice. Everybody was aware of this; and for three-quarters of an hour we kept trudging hurriedly forward, scarcely daring to speak, and every now and then looking up with distrust at the calotte, as the summit 1s termed, that rose above us in such cold and deceitful tranquillity. Once or twice in my life T have been placed in circumstances of the greatest peril, and 1 now experienced the same dead calm in which my feelings always were sunk on these occasions. I knew that every step we took was gained from the chance of a horrible death; and yet the only thing that actually distressed me was, that the two front lanterns would not keep the same distance from one another—a matter of the most utter umm- portance to everybody. At last we got under the shelter of the Rochers : : tv: Rouges, and then we were in comparative safety ; NIGHT-MARCH ON THE GRAND PLATEAU. 253 since, were an avalanche to fall, they would turn its course on to the plateau we had just quitted. A small council was assembled there. The Irish- man, who had got a little ahead of us, was com- pelled to give in—he was done up and could go no farther. Indeed, it would have been madness to have attempted it, for we found him lying on the snow, vomiting frightfully, with considerable haemorrhage from the nose. I think this must have been about the same elevation at which young Mr. Talfourd was compelled to give in, in 1843. I told our poor companion that he must not think the worse of us for leaving him there, with his guide, as, unfortunately, we could do nothing for him; but I recommended him to go back as speedily as he could to the Grands Mulets, where he would find everything that he might require. He took this advice, and, indeed, we found him still at the rock, on our return. As we reached the almost perpendicular wall of ice below the Rochers Rouges, we came into a a ss ET cosa ee ; —————— Be iii LE v i —— pee in A a — — SE ls te Er TR r——— = nas Cons sont 5 ps ois Ee eT amr bap or - " ae — pe REIN Ln pi ESE a a TLL Sn Em k | i 3 . She WE 0 TO 2aF T i PR en a —— 254 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. the full moonlight; and, at the same time, far away on the horizon, the red glow of daybreak was gradually tinging the sky, and bringing the higher and more distant mountains into relief. The union of these two effects of light was very strange. At first, simply cold and bewildering, it had nothing of the sunset glories of the Grands Mulets; but after a time, when peak after peak rose out from the gloomy world below, the spectacle was magnificent. In the dark, boundless space a small speck of light would suddenly appear, growing larger and larger, until it took the palpable form of a mountain- top. Whilst this was going on, other points would brighten, here and there, and Increase In the same manner; then a silvery gleam would mark the position of a lake reflecting the sky— it was that of Geneva—until the grey, hazy ocean lighted up into hills, and valleys, and irregularities, and the entire world below warmed into the glow of sunrise. We were yet in gloom, shadowed by the Aiguille Sans Nom, with the NIGHT-MARCH ON THE GRAND PLATEAU. 255 summit of Mont Blanc shut out from us by the Rochers Rouges; but, of course, 1t must have been the earliest to catch the rays. It was now fearfully cold ; and every now and then a sharp north-east wind nearly cut us into pieces, bringing with it a storm of spicule of ice, which were really very painful, as they blew against and past our faces and ears: so we took to our veils again, which all night long had been twisted round our hats. TI felt very chilled and dispirited. TI had now passed two nights without sleep; and I had really eaten nothing since the yesterday’s morning but part of an egg, a piece of fowl, and a little bit of bread— for my illness had taken away all my appetite ; and on this small diet IT had been undergoing the greatest work. But none of us were com. plaining of nausea, or difficulty of breathing, or blood to the head, or any of the other symptoms which appear to have attacked most persons even on the Grand Plateau; so I plucked up fresh courage, and prepared for our next achievement. mae ied Ct St Sen Pg fe a arse ter i 256 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. This was no light affair. From the foot of the Rochers Rouges there runs a huge and slanting buttress of ice, round which we had to climb from the north-east to the east. Its surface was at an angle of about sixty degrees. Above us, it terminated in a mighty cliff, entirely covered with icicles of marvellous length and beauty ; below, it was impossible to see where it went, for it finished suddenly in an edge, which was believed to be the border of a great crevice. Along this we now had to go; and the journey was as hazardous a one as a man might make along a barn-top with frozen snow on it. Jean Carrier went first, with his axe, and very cau- tiously cut every step in which we were to place our feet in the ice. It is difficult at times to walk along ice on a level; but when that ice 1s tilted up more than halfway towards the perpen- dicular, with a fathomless termination below, and no more foot and hand hold afforded than can be chipped out, it becomes a nervous affair enough. The cords came mto requisition again; N 4 “AL . ~ { and we went : vent along, leaning very much over to our ri S right, and, T must say, paying little attention out spots for us to admire—the Jardin, Monte Rosa, and the Col du Géant—as they became visible. Tt took us nearly half an hour to cr | eep round this hazardous slope, and then we came once mor i Or¢ upon a vast undulating field of jee J looking straight down the Glacier du Tacul towards the upper part of the Mer de Glace the reverse of the vi nN > view the visitor enjoys f; the Jardin. nen | My eyelids had felt very heavy for the last our; and, but for the absolute mortal necessity of keeping them widely open, T belie have closed before this; but now and irrepressible desir ve would such a strange e to go to sleep seized hold of me, that I almost fell fast off as I sat down shoes . for ’ , . a few minutes on the snow to tie my gam, and I was compelled to go on with the caravan. * 1 1 > S x a tr er en TE, \ * wR iss ar Abad FONE bw AAS SE cd he ia Sigh se Nl BE AA Sp FE 258 THE STORY OF MONT BLANC. for a space of two hours, I was in such a strange state of mingled unconsciousness and acute ob- servation—of combined sleeping and waking— that the old-fashioned word “bewitched” is the only one that I can apply to the complete confusion and upsetting of sense In which I found myself plunged. 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Graces, Gallery of the Canadian Life, Sketches of...... 13 | Guides for Travellers Carrel’s Counter Revolution .... 19 | Guizot’s English Revolution .... Chapman’s Elements of Art .... 5 | — Civilization Cheever’sWhaleman’s Adventures 12 (Mad.) Young Student. . Child’s Drawing Books Happy Home (The) First Lesson Book . ..... Harding’s Works on Art Christian Graces in Olden Time. 2 | — Drawing Books Christmas with the Poets 1 | — Sketches at Home.... Church Catechism lllustrated .. Harry’s Ladder to Learning .... Comic Works Heroes of England Heroines of Shakspeare Hervey’s Meditations Hitchcock’s Religion of Geology Home Lesson Books burg Story Books Hood's Epping Hunt ——— Eugene Aram Hunt’s Fourth Estate Introd. to Gothic Architecture .. Dale’s Poems De Staél’s (Mad.) Life and Times 11 De Vigny’s Cinq Mars 19 Domestic Architecture Natural Histories........ 10 Almanack Story Books Cooke’s Rome Cooper’s (T. S.) Animals Cowper’s Poems 4,15, 20 Crosland’s Memorable Women.. 16 Johnson’s Lives of the Poets.... Julien’s Studies of Heads ———— Human Figure | | Cracker Bon Bon for Christmas 8 Cs rn oo od consisting of Twenty large and magnificent Plates, designed and engrave by John Martin, Author of * Belshazzar’s Feast,” &c. Ina large folio volume, cloth. = Originally published at £10.10s.; reduced to £2.2s. Cruikshank’s (Geo.) Works .... 9 Fairy Lib... 16 Juvenile Books Keepsake (The) ......... cereean — eee see. (86, FLEET STREET, - a. Loxpon.] Ere . Pu Pret ii 5) AT i A Bs CBR OI LT ci, DAVID BOGUE'S ANNUAL CATALOGUE. Indexr— continued. INNA AS Kendall’s Travels ....covvennenn 7 King’s Interest Tables.......... 14 LACONICS +vvvveercanesscananens 22 Landscape Painters of England.. 2 3 Language of Flowers.......... ve Laureland Lyre................ 15 Lectures on Great Exhibition.... 11 —_— old ...coiiiiennn. 11 Le Keux’s Cambridge .......... 4 Life’s Lessons ....coevenenenenss 14 Little Mary’s Books ............ 17 Treasury.......... 17 —— Lesson Book..... 17 Lives of Italian Painters ........ 19 London Anecdotes.............. 13 Longfellow’s Poems .......... 1, 12 —— Hyperion ......... 1 R— Golden Legend.. 1, 12 ———— Prose Works ...... 12 Luther’s Life ........... Crees 19 ——— TableTalk .....cccuvee 19 Mackay’s (Charles) Egeria .... .. 13 -—————— Town Lyrics 13 v'aid of Honour ..... Ceeeaeeaes 13 Malcom’s Travels in Hindustan . 22 Aianuals of Instruction, &c. .... 15 Martin’s (John) Bible .......... 22 Mayhew’s Greatest Plague...... 7 ———— Acting Charades...... 8 Magic of Industry.... 8 Sandboys’ Adventures 8 ——— Toothache .......... 9 ——— Model Men & Women 10 Menofthe Time... .ocoveeenenen. 11 Michelet’s Life of Luther........ 19 Roman Republic .... 19 Mignet’s French Revolution .... 19 Miller’s (T.) Poems for Children 17 ——— — Anglo-Saxons...... 19 —— — —— Pictures of Country Life. eve reeececenennnncneanens 4 Milton’s Poetical Works ....... 3 Miniature Classics... ............ 20 Miriam and Rosette ............ 12 Museum of Painting & Sculpture 22 Ogleby’s Adventures............ 10 Oldbuck’s Adventures... ...... 10 Painting, Drawing, &c. Workson 4 Panorama of Jerusalem ........ 14 Parlour Magic.........coeeennnn 18 Pearls of the East .............. 4 Pellatt on Glass-making ........ 2 Pen and Ink Sketches ....... I. Pentamerone (The)..........- .. 8 Pictorial Bible History..... .... 18 Picture Book for the Young .... Playmate (The) .......oovnvennn 17 Poetry of Flowers ..... NP ————— the Sentiments ...... Prout’s (Sam.) Microcosm, &c... 21 Puckle’sClub .......oiiveennnns 22 Rafaelle’s Cartoons ............ 2 Reach’s (A. B.) Loire and Rhone 7 — Leonard Lindsay 7 -—— Comic. Nat.Hists. 10 Recollections of the Lakes ..... . 14 Reid’s (Capt. M.) Desert Home.. 16 ~———— Boy Hunters... 16 ee ——— Young Voyag.. 16 Rembrandt and his Works... .... 2 Reveries of a Bachelor .......... 7 Robinson Crusoe. ....coeeeeeeee 8 Romance of Nature ............ 3 Roscoe’s Lorenzo de Medici .... 19 cm — Leo XL tiie 19 Round Games .....ceveeeeennnns 8 Scott’s Poems.............. 3, 15, 20 Seymour’s New Readings ...... 10 Shakspeare Heroines... .......... 2 —2s Works ........ ee 0 20 Sharpe's Diamond Dictionary 13 Singing Book ........ciiiiien 13 smith’s (Alexander) Poems. . .... 11 (Albert) Mont Blanc .... 7 —— Constantinople. 7 —— —————— Christ. Tadpole 8 - en Comic Natural Histories ....oe.oveeerecenens 10 Spring’s Glory of Christ ........ 13 Stowe Catalogue.......... eeees 12 Stuart’s Antiquities of Athens .. 6 Suggestions in Design .......... 6 Tayler’s (C. B.) Angel’s Sony.... 12 — May You Like It 13 Taylor’s Young Islanders ...... 17 Thierry’s Norman Conquest .... 19 Thomson’s Seasons............ 3,15 "fschudi’s Travels in Peru ...... 7 Turner and his Works.......... 1 Vaticano (Il). . .coveiiiiiieeennn 22 Vestiges of Old London ........ 2 Walton’s Angler .............. 4, 20 Water Colour Gallery .......... 22 Waverley Gallery .............. 3 Webster’s Quarto Dictionary .. 11 — — ——Qctavo Dictionary.... 11 Whist, Game of .........oovennn 14 Willson on Water Colours... .... 5 Windsor in Olden Time ........ 12 Winkle’s Cathedrals............ 6 Women of the Bible ............. 3 vonders of Travel ............. 7 Year Book of Facts... ............ 14 Young Lady’sOracle............ 8 THE MASTER NEGATIVE,FROM WHICH THIS REPRODUCT ION WAS MADE, 1S STORED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, ROOM 20, MAIN LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 9 4 / 2 0 FOR ADDITIONAL REPRODUCTION REQUEST MASTER NEGATIVE NUMBER 8/0 1