Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69
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01 - Preface and Chap. I
30:21 -
02 - The Ascent of Mont Pelvoux
47:18 -
03 - The Mont Cenis Pass and the Fell Railway
17:08 -
04 - My First Scramble on the Matterhorn
32:11 -
05 - Renewed Attempts to Ascend the Matterhorn
58:21 -
06 - The Val Tournanche - The Breuiljoch - Zermatt - Ascent of the Grand Tournalin
40:48 -
07 - Our Sixth Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn
20:52 -
08 - From St. Michel on the Mont Cenis Road, by the Col des Aiguilles d'Arve, Col de Martignare, and the Brèche de la Meije, to La Bérarde
29:18 -
09 - The Ascent of the Pointe des Écrins
27:46 -
10 - From Val Louise to La Bérard by the Col de Pilatte
19:43 -
11 - Passage of the Col de Triolet, and Ascents of the Mont Dolent, Aiguille de Trélatête, and Aiguille d'Argentière
37:57 -
12 - Moming Pass -- Zermatt
21:19 -
13 - The Ascent of the Grand Cornier
23:08 -
14 - The Ascent of the Dent Blanche
13:32 -
15 - Lost on the Col d'Hérens.-- My Seventh Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn
27:47 -
16 - Valley of Aosta, and Ascent of the Grandes Jorasses
31:34 -
17 - The Col Dolent
13:48 -
18 - Ascent of the Aiguille Verte
16:11 -
19 - The Col de Talèfre
6:19 -
20 - Ascent of the Runette -- The Matterhorn
27:54 -
21 - The Ascent of the Matterhorn
22:49 -
22 - Descent of the Matterhorn
29:11 -
23 - Appendix A -- Appendix B
8:41
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Edward Whymper's account of his climbing campaigns in the Alps between 1860 and 1869 is one of the founding books of mountaineering literature. Much of it drives toward a single day: 14 July 1865, when Whymper and his companions made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, only for four of the party to fall to their deaths on the descent when a rope broke. Whymper writes with a surveyor's eye and a storyteller's nerve about glaciers, ridges, storms, and near misses, and he illustrated the book himself with sharp wood engravings. It remains a gripping firsthand record of the golden age of Alpine climbing and its costs.
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Book facts
- Author
- Edward Whymper
- First published
- 1871
- Reading time
- About 10 hours
- Pages
- 475
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Wilderness Adventure
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)