Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 479
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… … SHEEP ON THE GLACIER. ALPINE GUIDES 975 is apt to unwind his coil of rope and fasten his followers to it, keeping them fifteen or twentyfeet apart. Then he tells each to tread in thefootprints he makes, because it is safe, and thusthe journey proceeds. Should any one happento fall into a crevasse…
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