Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 (1871)
Whymper, Edward · John Murray (London) · leaf 120
IV, JEAN-ANTOINE CARREL. 89 the comrade. “Oh ho!” I said, “you have repented?” “Not at all; you deceive yourself,” “ Why then have you come here?” “Because we ourselves are going on the mountain to-morrow.” “Oh, then it is not necessary to have more than three.” “Not for us.” Tadmired their pluck,… … Both were bold mountaineers ; but Jean-Antoine was incom- parably the better man of the two, and he is the finest rock-climber IT have ever seen. He was the only man who persistently refused to accept defeat, and who continued to believe, in spite of all dis- couragements, that the great mountain…
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