 | 1842 - 592 pages
...put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding, yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet ; and we passed over these bridges often grasping the ice with one hand, while the other, hearing' the pole, balanced the body, hanging over some abyss into which the eye penetrated and searched... | |
 | 1828 - 602 pages
...insurmountable barriers to our proceeding ; yet, some part was found, where steps could be cut with the hatchet; and we passed over these bridges, often...penetrated, and searched in vain for the extremity.' • Several of these crevices were passed on ice-bridges ; in some cases, the communication was nothing... | |
 | John Auldjo - 1830 - 224 pages
...put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding: yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet ; and we passed over these bridges, often...hands and knees, often descending into a deep chasm on the one side, and scaling the slippery precipice on the other. No men could be in higher spirits than... | |
 | Martin Barry - 1835 - 52 pages
...put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding : yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet, and we passed over these bridges, often...hands and knees, often descending into a deep chasm on the one side, and scaling the slippery precipice on the other." — " Narrative of an Ascent to the... | |
 | 1835 - 440 pages
...put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding : yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet, and we passed over these bridges, often...hands and knees, often descending into a deep chasm on the one side, and scaling the slippery precipice on the other." — Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit... | |
 | 1835 - 438 pages
...insurmountable bar. Hers to our proceeding : yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet, and we passed over these bridges, often...hands and knees, often descending into a deep chasm on the one side, and scaling the slippery precipice on the other." — Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding : vet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet, and we passed over these bridges, often...Sometimes we were obliged to climb up from one crag oi ice to another, sometimes to scramble along a led-e on our hands and knees, often descending into... | |
 | 1835 - 442 pages
...put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding : yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet, and we passed over these bridges, often...extremity. Sometimes we were obliged to climb up from one crng of ice to another, sometimes to scramble along a ledge on our hands and knees, often descending... | |
 | 1842 - 594 pages
...put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding, yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet ; and we passed over these bridges often...hands and knees, often descending into a deep chasm on the one side and scaling the slippery precipice on the other.' — Narrative of an Ascent of Mont Blanc,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd, John Nyren - 1852 - 626 pages
...seemed to put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding: yet some part was found where steps could bo cut out by the hatchet ; and we passed over these...crag of ice to another, sometimes to scramble along a ledgo on our hands and knees, often descending into a deep chasm on the one side, and scaling the slippery... | |
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We were surrounded by ice piled up in mountains, crevices presenting themselves at every step, and masses half sunk into some deep gulf; the remainder, raised above us, seemed to put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding: yet some part was found where... 
