The Doldenhorn and Weisse Frau: Ascended for the First Time (Classic Reprint)

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If a characteristic feature of the Bernese Alps, consisting in the distinctn'ess and variety of form with which their sum mits rise from their glacier pedestals, has been justly extolled, the same commendation may fairly be claimed by the snowo clad peaks which command the Kanderthal. Here the W'ildstrubel. Like a huge colossus. Towers over the Engst ligenthal. The Rinderhorn arches upwards its spotless mantle to the azure sky. Above it rises the graceful glacier pyramid of the Altais, the admiration of all Gemmi travellers, on their way to the warm springs of Leuk. But even this dazzling peak is surpassed by the more imposing proportions of the adjacent Balmhorn. Finally, from the main chain to which these mountains belong, rise the majestic Doldenhorn and Frau or Blilmlisalp, more elevated than the three first mentioned. And inferior to the Heimborn alone: the Dolden horn as a graceful double pyramid on a massive basis of rock and glacier, the Blfimlisalp constituting. As it were. A moun tainous region of its own, over whose innumerable ridges the glaciers throw their huge folds, and in whose splendour the Frau vies with the renowned Jungfrau herself.

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