item: #1 of 7 id: 34192 author: Tyndall, John title: The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related date: None words: 146689 flesch: 66 summary: 299 Character of Rendu; his Essay entitled 'Théorie des Glaciers de la Savoie;' extracts from the essay; he ascribes circulation to natural forces; classifies glaciers; assigns the cause of the conversion of snow into ice; notices Veined Structure; time and affinity; notices Regelation; diminution of _glaciers réservoirs_; Remarkable Passage; announces Swifter Motion of Centre; North British Review; Discrepancies explained by Rendu; Liquid Motion ascribed to glacier; all the phenomena of a River reproduced upon the Mer de Glace; Ratio of Side and Central velocities; Errors removed 15. 308 Anticipations of Rendu confirmed by Agassiz and Forbes; analogies with Liquid Motion established by Forbes; his Measurements in 1842; measurements in 1844 and 1846; Measurements of Agassiz and Wild in 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845; Numerous other illustrations of the law might, I doubt not, be discovered, and it would be a pleasant and useful occupation to one who takes an interest in the subject, to determine, by strict measurements upon other glaciers, the locus of the point of maximum motion, and to observe the associated mechanical effects. keywords: aar glacier; able; absorbed; account; action; actual; adjacent; advance; agassiz; aiguille; air; aletsch glacier; allalein glacier; alpine; alps; analogy; ancient; angle; appearance; arch; arrangement; ascent; aspect; associated; atmosphere; atoms; attempt; attention; augmented; august; avalanche; axe; axis; balmat; bands; base; bearing; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedding; bennen; bent; best; black; blanc; blocks; blue; blue ice; bodies; body; boiling; book; boulders; branches; break; breaking; breithorn glacier; broken; brown; bubbles; care; cascade; case; cast; cells; central; centre; certain; chamois; chamouni; change; character; charmoz; chasms; chief; circumstances; clear; cleavage; cliffs; climbing; close; clouds; cohesion; cold; colour; coloured; common; compact; companion; comparatively; condition; cones; connexion; consequence; considerable; contact; continued; continuity; continuous; convex; corresponding; course; covered; crags; crevasses; cross; crossing; crumples; crushed; crystalline; crystallization; crystals; curves; cut; cutting; danger; dark; darkness; day; days; deep; degree; dense; depth; descending; descends; descent; desire; detached; determined; developed; diagram; differences; different; differential; difficulties; difficulty; direction; dirt; distance; distant; distinct; doubt; downwards; débris; early; earth; eastern; echoes; edge; effect; effort; end; enormous; entire; entire glacier; equal; escape; evening; evidence; examination; example; existence; expedition; experience; experiments; explanation; exquisite; extent; extraordinary; 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ladder; lake; laminated; large; lateral; lauener; law; layer; lead; leaves; left; length; lens; letter; level; life; light; like; line; liquefaction; liquid; little; local; long; longer; longitudinal; looking; loose; lost; lower; lower glacier; luminous; léchaud; magnetic; magnetism; magnificent; man; manifest; manner; marginal; mass; masses; matter; maximum; means; measurements; mechanical; medial; melting; mer; mere; mica; middle; mind; minute; mode; molecular; molecules; moment; montanvert; monte; moon; moraines; morning; motion; mould; moulins; mountain; moves; mud; mulets; muscles; narrow; natural; nature; near; necessary; needle; new; noise; north; noticed; number; névé; o'clock; oberland; object; oblique; obscure; observations; occasion; opinion; opposite; order; ordinary; origin; page; paper; parallel; particles; particular; parts; pass; passage; past; peaks; perfect; phenomena; physical; pieces; pine; place; planes; plateau; play; pleasant; pleasure; point; porters; portion; position; possess; possible; powder; precipice; presence; present; pressure; previous; prism; process; professor; progress; promontory; proper; protuberances; pure; quantity; question; radiant; ramsay; range; rays; reach; red; reference; reflected; reflection; regards; regelation; region; remarkable; removed; rendu; rest; result; return; rhone glacier; ridges; riffelhorn; rings; ripples; rise; river; rocks; roof; room; rope; rosa; rosa glacier; rose; rounded; route; royal; sand; sank; saw; scene; science; scientific; seams; second; section; seeing; sensible; series; set; shadow; shaft; shape; sharp; shock; short; shows; sidenote; sides; similar; simond; single; singular; sky; slate; sliding; slope; slow; small; smoke; smooth; snow; society; soft; solar; solid; solid ice; sorby; sound; source; south; space; spirit; spots; staff; stake; stars; statement; station; steep; steps; stones; storm; straight; strain; strata; stratification; stream; strength; stretched; stretching; strong; structure; subject; subsequent; substance; succession; sufficient; suitable; summer; summit; sun; sunlight; sunrise; superficial; supposing; surface; system; séracs; tacul; talèfre; telescope; temperature; tendency; tension; theodolite; theory; thermometer; thick; thickness; thin; thomson; thought; thrust; thunder; time; trace; transparent; transverse; trees; tributaries; tributary; true; trunk; trunk glacier; trélaporte; tube; turn; underneath; undulations; uniform; unteraar glacier; upper; upwards; use; valley; vapour; vast; veined; veins; velocity; vertical; vessel; view; viscosity; viscous; visible; volume; walking; wall; warm; water; waves; wax; way; weather; weight; western glacier; white ice; wide; width; wild; wind; winter; wonderful; wood; words; work; yards; year; yellow; yielding cache: 34192.txt plain text: 34192.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 34466 author: Kjelgaard, Jim title: Rescue Dog of the High Pass date: None words: 24572 flesch: 89 summary: Then you should have told us so, little Franz, Father Benjamin said. I have brought your supper, little Franz, for you must remain here, he said. keywords: alpine; alps; answered; anton; avalanche; benjamin; bernard; big; blizzard; boy; broken; caesar; clean; cold; coming; course; cutting; day; dead; deep; distance; dog; door; dornblatt; elder; emil; eyes; face; family; far; father; father benjamin; father paul; fear; feet; fine; finest; forest; forward; fox; franz; franz halle; geiser; gentle; good; gottschalk; great; greb; guide; gulley; half; halle; hand; hard; hay; head; heart; help; hermann; high; hospice; house; illustration; jean; jim; kjelgaard; lay; left; life; like; little; little franz; long; longer; lost; luttman; man; mark; maronnier; martek; mastiff; men; message; minutes; moment; mother; mountains; near; new; old; pass; past; path; paul; peaks; people; place; pole; possible; priest; prior; professor; refectory; rest; right; saw; school; set; sister; ski; skis; slope; snow; spit; squirrel; stable; storm; summer; sure; tail; thing; thought; time; travelers; tree; true; turn; unable; village; voice; wall; way; widow; wind; winter; wood; work; world; years; young cache: 34466.txt plain text: 34466.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 35229 author: Werner, E. title: The Alpine Fay: A Romance date: None words: 99467 flesch: 78 summary: Such men are rarely fit for serious exertion. Herr Wolfgang Elmhorst, said the president, introducing his companion. keywords: absence; abyss; accustomed; affair; afraid; air; albert; alice; alice nordheim; alpine; answer; anxiety; appearance; arm; arms; ascent; attempt; aware; baroness; beautiful; beauty; benno; best; betrothal; betrothed; better; black; blue; bold; breath; bridge; brilliant; broken; brother; brown; burst; business; calm; capital; care; carriage; case; certain; chair; change; chapter; character; chief; child; circumstances; clear; cliff; close; clouds; cold; colour; company; confession; confidence; conscious; consciousness; consideration; content; contrary; control; conversation; cool; country; couple; courage; course; court; cousin; crowd; dancing; danger; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; decided; deep; depths; desire; despair; dismay; distant; distinguished; doctor; dog; door; doubt; drawing; drive; duty; early; earth; easy; effect; elmhorst; energy; engineer; entire; erect; erna; ernst; ernsthausen; evening; evident; existence; explanation; expression; extreme; eyes; face; fact; familiar; family; far; farewell; fashion; father; favour; fay; fear; features; feet; fellow; figure; fine; fire; floor; flowers; foot; force; foreign; forest; forgotten; fortune; frau; free; freedom; freiherr; fresh; friend; fräulein; future; garden; gentleman; gersdorf; girl; glad; glance; god; good; granduncle; grave; gray; great; griff; gronau; ground; guardian; guest; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; heaven; height; heilborn; help; herr; herr elmhorst; herr waltenberg; high; hitherto; home; honour; hope; hour; house; household; huge; human; hurried; husband; icy; idea; impossible; inclined; indignant; instant; interest; interposed; interview; iron; kind; known; ladies; lady; large; lasberg; late; laughing; law; lay; leave; left; life; like; lips; little; long; longer; look; lost; love; low; madame; man; manner; married; matter; mean; midsummer; millions; mind; minutes; mist; mistress; molly; moment; money; months; morning; morrow; mother; mountain; mountaineers; nature; near; need; new; niece; nordheim; oberstein; offer; old; open; opinion; pair; pale; papa; pardon; party; passionate; path; pause; peak; people; physician; place; pleasure; poor; position; possession; power; presence; present; president; promise; proud; question; quiet; railway; rain; ready; realm; reason; regard; reinsfeld; reply; rest; return; right; road; rock; room; rose; ruin; sake; satisfaction; save; scene; schemes; secretary; self; sentence; sepp; servant; short; shoulders; silence; silent; simple; smile; snow; society; son; soul; spite; spot; standing; stay; step; storm; stranger; struggle; sudden; suit; summer; summit; superintendent; sure; surprise; table; talent; talk; terrible; terror; thank; thing; thought; thurgau; time; tone; true; trust; truth; turning; uncle; undertaking; unexpected; usual; uttered; vain; veit; villa; visit; voice; von; waltenberg; want; water; way; wealth; weather; weeks; white; wife; window; wish; wishes; wolfgang; wolkenstein; woman; words; work; world; years; yesterday; young; young man cache: 35229.txt plain text: 35229.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 36811 author: Hillern, Wilhelmine von title: The Hour Will Come: A Tale of an Alpine Cloister. Volumes I and II date: None words: 80799 flesch: 84 summary: You are but a child, but the Lord has said, 'Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.' Oh! poor, poor man--and I cannot help you. keywords: abbot; altar; angel; anguish; answer; arms; aye; baby; bare; bear; beata; bed; bell; berntrudis; better; blessed; blessing; blind; blind man; blood; blue; body; book; bosom; boy; breast; breath; brethren; broad; broken; brother; brow; burning; calm; care; castle; cell; chapel; chapter; cheeks; child; children; church; clasped; cloister; close; clouds; cold; comfort; coming; companion; conrad; consciousness; convent; cool; corpse; correntian; count; cross; crown; cruel; cry; danger; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; die; distance; donatus; door; dream; dress; drink; duchess; duke; dumb; duty; earth; earthly; eastern; end; eternal; eusebius; evening; evil; eyes; face; fain; faithful; fall; fallen; far; father; fear; fearful; feeble; feeling; feet; figure; find; fire; florentinus; flowers; fly; food; foot; force; forehead; forest; forgive; form; forward; free; frozen; garden; gate; gaze; girl; glance; god; gold; golden; good; grant; grave; great; grey; guide; hair; half; hall; hand; handsome; happy; hard; haste; head; heart; heaven; heavy; hell; help; helpless; hidden; high; higher; hildegard; hill; holy; home; honour; hope; horror; horses; hot; hour; house; human; husband; ill; infant; innocent; instant; iron; joy; kiss; knees; ladies; lady; large; laughing; law; lay; lead; leave; left; life; like; lips; little; live; lonely; long; longer; longing; look; looking; lord; lord abbot; lost; love; loving; low; maidens; man; marienberg; mass; master; men; mercy; mighty; mind; miserable; moment; monastery; monk; moon; morning; mortal; mother; mountain; muttered; narrow; nature; nay; near; nearer; need; new; night; noble; nurse; old; old man; open; order; outcast; outside; pain; pale; parents; past; path; peace; penance; people; picture; pious; pity; poor; poor child; porphyrius; power; prayer; priest; prior; proud; pure; quiet; rage; ramüss; reichenberg; rest; rested; return; reverend; reward; rights; robe; roof; room; rose; rough; round; rule; sacred; saint; sake; salvation; senses; service; set; shame; shelter; shepherd; short; sick; silence; silent; sin; single; sky; sleep; sleeping; small; smile; snow; soft; solemn; son; soul; spirit; spot; spring; standing; steps; stiero; stone; storm; strange; strength; strong; struggle; suffering; sun; superior; sweet; table; tall; tears; teeth; temptation; tender; terrible; terror; thee; thick; things; thought; time; torment; torn; touch; tree; trembling; true; truth; turn; turret; uta; vain; valentine; valley; village; voice; vow; waiting; walls; warm; water; way; weak; weary; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; window; wings; wish; woe; woman; wood; wooden; words; work; world; wyso; yard; young; younger; youth cache: 36811.txt plain text: 36811.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 39542 author: Conway, William Martin, Sir title: The Alps date: None words: 66807 flesch: 74 summary: There is a gorgeous range of snow mountains with every effect of cloud and sunshine that the eye can desire, displayed about and upon them, yet the climber finds with dismay that his heart is cold. It has been proved that snow mountains are a specially suitable subject for such art. keywords: action; active; activity; actual; advance; aiguille; air; aletsch; alpine; alps; andes; apparent; approach; arctic; area; artist; ascent; aspect; atmosphere; attention; avalanches; base; beautiful; beauty; bed; behold; belt; beneath; best; better; black; blanc; blue; book; breaking; brief; bright; broad; burst; case; cattle; central; century; chamonix; change; chapter; character; characteristic; charm; chief; church; clear; cliff; climber; climbing; close; clouds; colour; colouring; coming; common; conditions; conscious; considerable; contrast; countless; country; course; crest; crevasses; dark; dawn; day; days; debris; deep; definite; delicate; delight; delightful; depths; descent; desire; details; different; difficult; dignity; direction; distance; distant; district; dolomites; dome; dry; dust; early; earth; east; easy; effect; element; elevation; eminent; emotion; end; evening; example; expedition; experience; extent; eye; eyes; faces; fact; fall; fallen; familiar; far; features; feeling; feet; fertile; fields; fine; finest; flat; floor; flow; flowers; flowing; foot; forces; foreground; forest; form; fragment; fresh; friends; frost; future; gaze; general; glacier; glorious; glory; gold; good; gorner; grace; grandeur; grass; great; great alpine; great mountain; great peaks; great snow; greater; greatest; green; grindelwald; group; grown; guide; gullies; gully; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heights; high; higher; highest; hills; history; hollows; home; hope; hour; human; hut; huts; ice; idea; illustrations; imagination; important; impressive; individual; infinite; instance; interest; interesting; italian; john; joy; jungfrau; kind; knowledge; known; lake; landscape; large; left; length; level; lie; life; like; likely; line; little; long; look; looking; love; lower; lucerne; main; man; marked; mass; matterhorn; meaning; means; melting; memories; memory; men; menpes; mere; middle; midst; mind; minor; modelling; modern; moment; mont; mood; moon; moraine; morning; mortimer; mountain; mountain scenery; mountaineer; movement; mud; multitude; narrow; natural; nature; near; nearer; need; neighbourhood; neighbours; new; normal; north; note; number; oberland; objects; old; open; opening; ordinary; outline; page; page illustrations; panorama; particular; parts; pass; passage; passes; passing; past; pastures; peaks; people; perfect; perfection; photographs; picture; picturesque; place; plain; plateau; play; point; position; possess; possible; pre; presence; present; process; pyramid; qualities; quality; question; r.i; rain; range; rapid; reach; reader; red; regard; regions; relative; remarkable; remote; return; rich; ridges; rise; river; rock; rosa; round; route; ruskin; scale; scenery; scientific; season; second; seeing; sense; series; shadows; sides; sight; silence; similar; simple; single; size; sky; slopes; small; smaller; snout; snow; snow mountains; soft; sort; south; space; special; spitsbergen; spring; square; stage; standing; stands; steep; stones; storm; strange; streams; strike; structure; subject; succession; sudden; suitable; summer; summit; sun; sunset; sunshine; surface; surroundings; swiss; switzerland; tell; text; thing; thought; thun; time; town; traces; traveller; traverse; trees; true; turn; type; understanding; upper; valley; value; varied; varieties; variety; vast; view; village; visible; vision; volcanic; volcanoes; volume; wall; warm; water; way; weather; weisshorn; west; white; wide; wind; winter; wonder; words; work; world; year; young; zermatt cache: 39542.txt plain text: 39542.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 42758 author: Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs. title: True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old date: None words: 66811 flesch: 76 summary: If the peak is well known, as is, say, the Matterhorn, he will have heard from other guides which routes have been followed, and will know that if he desires to take his traveller up the ordinary way he must go past the Schwarz-see Hotel, and on to the ridge which terminates in the Hörnli, making for the hut which he has seen from below through the telescope. Melchior was born a guide, as he was born a gentleman, and no one who has had the pleasure of his acquaintance can fail to be impressed by his tact and wonderful sweetness of disposition, which have enabled him to work smoothly and satisfactorily with other guides, who might well have felt some jealousy at his career of unbroken success. keywords: a.m.; able; accident; account; advanced; adventure; aiguille; air; almer; alpine; alps; angle; answer; anxious; arkwright; arms; arête; ascent; attempt; august; avalanche; awful; axe; axes; bad; beneath; bennen; best; better; big; birkbeck; bivouac; blanc; blocks; body; book; borckhardt; boy; break; breuil; broad; broken; brother; burgener; buttress; carrel; carré; case; centre; certain; chamonix; chamouni; chance; chapter; christian; class; clear; climbers; climbing; close; club; cold; coming; considerable; cornice; couloir; course; crevasse; crossing; croz; cut; cutting; danger; dangerous; day; days; death; deep; descent; different; difficult; difficulties; direction; distance; doubt; dru; early; easy; edge; eiger; end; english; enormous; escape; exciting; expedition; experience; eyes; face; fact; fall; family; famous; far; fast; feet; final; fine; following; food; foot; form; fragments; free; friend; frozen; gardiner; gentleman; glacier; good; gorret; great; guides; gully; hadow; half; halt; hamel; hand; hard; head; heavy; height; help; herr; high; higher; highest; hold; holding; hole; home; hotel; hour; hudson; huge; hut; ice; icy; idea; illustration; imboden; inn; interesting; italian; jean; joch; joseph; journal; knapsack; known; lady; lammer; large; later; lauener; leading; left; length; level; life; like; line; little; lives; long; look; loose; lower; man; martin; mass; matterhorn; maurer; means; meije; melchior; member; messrs; mighty; mind; minutes; moment; monsieur; mont; moore; morning; mountain; mountaineering; mountaineers; mrs; mulets; mönch; narrow; near; necessary; number; o'clock; occasion; order; overhanging; p.m.; page; parties; party; pass; passage; passes; past; path; peak; people; piece; piz; place; plan; plateau; point; poor; porter; position; possible; precipice; present; pull; quarter; question; rate; reach; ready; real; remains; rest; result; return; ridge; right; rocks; roman; rope; rosa; round; route; run; running; sad; safe; safety; saw; scerscen; search; season; second; seen; september; set; short; size; skill; skirt; slip; slope; small; smooth; snow; son; south; spite; spot; standing; start; state; steep; steps; stones; storm; strength; strong; success; summer; summit; sun; sure; surface; switzerland; sylvain; séracs; terrible; thing; thought; time; travellers; tremendous; true; turn; upper; use; valley; view; walker; wall; warm; way; weather; whymper; wieland; wind; winter; wonderful; words; work; world; yards; years; young; zermatt cache: 42758.txt plain text: 42758.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 43314 author: Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs. title: Adventures on the Roof of the World date: None words: 81713 flesch: 73 summary: here was good snow at last, only requiring at most a couple of slashes with the adze end of the axe for each step. True, the summit had seemed close enough when the last break in the swirling clouds had enabled us to catch a glimpse of what still towered above; but our experience of Swiss snow mountains was long enough to make us sceptical as to apparent tops, and possibly the Caucasian giants were as prone to deceive as the human pigmies that crawled and burrowed at their bases. keywords: able; accident; account; advanced; adventure; air; alive; almer; alpine; alps; angle; anne; arm; arête; ascent; assistance; attempt; attention; august; avalanche; axe; axes; bad; balloon; base; beneath; bergschrund; best; bettega; better; big; biner; bit; bivouac; black; blanche; bodies; body; boots; bread; breakfast; broken; brother; burgener; buttress; captain; care; case; caucasus; certain; chamonix; chance; chapel; chapter; circumstances; clear; cliffs; climbers; climbing; close; cloud; cold; coming; companions; condition; considerable; continued; cornice; couloir; course; crack; crevasse; cross; crossing; croz; cut; cutting; danger; dangerous; dark; darkness; day; daylight; days; dead; death; deep; dent; descending; descent; determined; difficult; difficulties; direction; distance; distant; door; doubt; downwards; dust; early; easy; ecrins; edge; effect; effort; end; escape; evening; exhausted; expedition; experience; extent; eyes; face; fact; fall; fallen; far; fatal; fear; feeling; feet; finding; fine; fingers; flat; following; food; foot; form; free; fresh; friends; frozen; furrer; gap; gentinetta; glacier; goats; god; good; grass; great; greater; greatest; guides; gully; hail; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; height; help; herr; high; higher; highest; hill; hold; hole; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; huge; husband; hut; ice; idea; illustration; imboden; imseng; inn; instant; intense; iron; jacob; joseph; journal; jungfrau; kind; known; labour; large; late; leader; leading; left; length; level; life; lightning; like; line; little; lives; long; longer; look; looking; loose; lost; lower; main; man; manner; martin; mary; mass; matterhorn; means; member; messrs; milk; mind; minutes; mist; moment; mons; mont; moraine; morning; mountain; mountaineering; mountaineers; mrs; mummery; mètres; narrow; nature; near; nearer; necessary; neighbourhood; new; noise; north; névé; o'clock; occasion; open; opinion; order; ordinary; p.m.; party; pass; passing; past; path; peak; people; perfect; perren; persons; place; pleasant; point; poor; porter; portion; position; possible; precipice; present; previous; progress; provisions; pull; quarry; quarter; question; rate; reach; ready; reason; relief; rest; return; ridge; right; risk; roccia; rocks; roman; roof; rope; rothhorn; round; route; safety; said; search; second; sensation; september; set; sharp; shelter; short; silence; similar; single; sister; situation; skill; sky; slabs; sleeping; slight; slingsby; slip; slope; small; smooth; snow; soft; solly; son; spite; spot; stable; standing; start; steady; steep; steps; stones; storm; straight; strange; strength; striking; strong; success; sudden; sufficient; summit; sun; support; sure; tales; task; tavernaro; terrible; thing; thought; thunder; time; tracks; true; turn; unable; upper; usual; valanca; valley; view; village; voice; walker; wall; warm; water; way; weather; west; wet; white; wide; wife; wind; wine; women; words; work; world; worse; yards; years; young; zermatt; zinal; zurbriggen cache: 43314.txt plain text: 43314.txt