The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs (1905) (14757783356)

Identifier: sportsofworldwit00afla (find matches)
Title: The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
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Publisher: London Paris New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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I could no longer move, so Isaid, Chuck me into a crevasse and go on your-selves. You must reach the top, answered theguides. They seized hold of me; they draggedme, they pushed me, they carried me, and at lastwe arrived.- I could see nothing clearly ; I couldnot breathe, I could not speak ! Maria was rewarded, however, for her sufferings,as she made quite a fortune through describingher experiences. On September 12th, 1S67, six guides set outfrom Breil to try and learn the way up the Italianside of the Matterhorn. The daughter of one ofthem accompanied the party. They all gotwithin 350 feet of the top, from which point twoof the guides gained the summit, the young womanand the remaining four guides awaiting the returnof their companions at the base of the last precipice. The ascent of Mont Blanc by MademoiselledAngeville in 1838 was the first recorded moun-taineering feat by a lady. The enterprisingFrenchwoman, not content with this singleachievement, returned summer after summer to
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DESCENDING THE ORTLER, IN THE TYROL.(Photo ; Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond.) 26S THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. the mountains, and went up many snow peaks,continuing to climb till very late in life. She wasforty-four years of age when she accomplished hurfirst and greatest ascent. In i860 mountaineering for women may be saidto have entered on a new phase. Up to thennotable ascents by ladies were of rare occurrence,and no woman had undertaken, season afterseason, a series of ascents which rivalled in diffi-culty those carried out by men. In that year,however, the Misses Pigeon electrified the climbingworld bv their descent of the Italian side of theSesia Joch, a pass crossed previously on only oneoccasion, when the party ascended from Italy.They had such trouble getting up the wall of rockand ice on that side, that they pronounced itimpossible for anyone to go down it. The aston-ishment of the Alpine Club can therefore beimagined when it was reported that two ladieshad crossed it from Switzerland to