Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 479
thigher and higher and at last reach the snow-fieldwhich seems so easy to cross, they are halted bythe guide while he cautiously treads upon it,testing it for concealed gaps into which one rock. The coil of rope swung over his shoulder might fall hundreds of feet. Below the snowis at least a… … CROSSING A CREVASSE. be enough to cause the snow to slip down its icyincline and carry all with it perhaps a thousandfeet into the valley below. Many an avalanche, it is asserted, has been caused by such a trifle asthis. If Johann or Heinrich or Luigi, as hisname happens to be, thinks it can be…
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