For 100 feet or so above the fall the ascent was made possible only by tough cushions of club-moss that clung to the rock.
Throughout the entire ascent they did not make a single awkward step, or an unsuccessful effort of any kind.
Continuing down over the snout, and along the left lateral moraine, was only a confident saunter, showing that the ascent of the mountain by way of this glacier is easy, provided one is armed with an ax to cut steps here and there.
On the morning of the 8th, after four days of gradual and constant ascent from the valley of the Rio Grande, which we had forded at San Ildefonso, we began the slower ascent of the most difficult portion of our march.
A few miles of rapid travelling brought us to a steep ascent into a mountainous range to the right.
They ascended cautiously, and from the summit of the short ascent looked out upon an elevated tableland in the midst of the morass.
West of the Ch'ing T'an Rapid, there is nothing to interfere with the ascent of a steamer for more than five hundred miles.
To reach it, the precipice should be traversed, the gorge beneath and a considerable ascent of the opposite mountain accomplished, and yet all these dangers had been successfully encountered, merely instigated by hunger!
A disastrous balloon ascent has been made from London by a Mr. and Mrs. Graham.
One of the engineers of the Tehuantepec survey states that a line for a railroad from the Coatzocoalcos River to the Pacific has been examined, in no part of which will there be an ascent of more than sixty feet to the mile.
Every step he had gone up in his quickascent had been over the body of some one who had loved him too well.
Before he reached the top of the ascent he had been an hour on the road, and the night was near to morning.
The other young people had given out halfway up the steep and tangled ascent and returned to the beach.
Had not the snow been soft and thin, the horses could not have made the ascent at all; and, as it was, the riders were forced to walk the greater part of the way and drag their unwilling steeds behind them.
On leaving the town the ascent begins almost immediately, and most abruptly.
But by theory our positive ascent ceased in two minutes five seconds, when we fell into our proper orbit, which, as I calculate, is 5,109 miles from your mean surface.
The sloping bank or ascent to the ramparts was still to be seen, and red fragments of the walls still marked out the circumference of the ancient building.
He described Naples, the ascentof Mount Vesuvius, and several of its eruptions; and the widow lady, who had never heard of them before, was lost in surprise.
His explanation of the ascent of the sap had really much in common with the "Kletterbewegung" theory propounded by Westermaier[14] almost exactly two hundred years later.
From what little view the gold-seekers had of the valley in the gathering darkness it did seem almost impossible of ascent or descent by ordinary means.
Once more came that nerve-thrilling rush across the ground, and then the quick ascent into the air.
The steps of the ascent to this tower are carried on arches against the side walls, with occasional openings in the vaults when necessary for passing.
The ascent to the roofs discloses the remaining early features.
Yes, very," said Max breathlessly, as he clambered the difficult ascent his companion had chosen.
The sound of roaring water grew louder and louder, and now he knew that they were climbing more slowly evidently upward, as if the ascent were exceedingly steep.
Therefore I should never succeed in coming so near heaven as you, the lonely, devout pilgrim, attained on the summit of your mountain peak, unless he accompanied me in spirit, unless his soul joined mine in the ascent or the flight.
At length our ascent came to an end, and we found ourselves on a plateau dotted over with stunted shrubs, distorted and twisted with the winds and storms.
In the first place, by geometrical calculations, and then, by the aid of a barometer, when an ascent has been made.
We again met with the pine-needles, and though our ascent was difficult and slow, our descent was proportionably rapid.
The ascent was difficult, and, in spite of remonstrances, I would not let go Lucien's hand.
A fresh ascent quite exhausted us, and Sumichrast vowed that he must relinquish the basket until the next day.
He would have offered a hand to assist his companion; but in the difficult ascent he found full occupation for both; and in this ungallant manner was he compelled to climb upward.
Smythje was not without a purpose in the proposed ascent to the natural observatory of the Jumbe Rock.
He soon came upon the path habitually used in the ascent and descent of the mountain.
Cowering within the covert, she awaited the ascent of her rival.
On reaching the base of the cliff the jealous equestrian dismounted, made fast her bridle to the branch of a tree, and, after unbuckling the little spur and removing it from her heel, continued the ascent a pied.
We were compelled to descend by the perpendicular ladder; and the descent was far worse than the ascent had been.
Bad as theascent was, the sudden descent was worse.
The ridge of mountains is more than four thousand feet above the level of the sea, and there is a regular ascent for twenty leagues from their inland base, to Coritiva.
During our progress hither, we observed that the mules travel as quick on an ascent as on level ground; they much excel the horse in uneven roads with sharp turnings, and still more so in bad roads.
We have already said that, across the inclined plane which fell from the steep ascent of the mountain to the banks of the Susquehanna, ran the highway on either side of which a clearing of many acres had been made at a very early day.
This ascent could only be made by night, as it was a slow process, and the smoke of a steamboat could be seen for a great distance.
Many times had Wabigoon seen his faithful comrade in moments of deadly peril but never, even when the Woongas were close upon their trail, had he known him to take them as seriously as he did the ascent of this mountain.
Just beginning the ascent of the mountain, four or five hundred yards below them, was the bear.
Tall lines of slender cypress trees guard either side of the steepascent or "sacro monte" which leads to it.
Then passing under a mediæval watch-tower we left the flat land and began the steep ascent to Montefalco.
Once clear of it, he began the ascent of the mountain which forms the watershed of the Del Norte and Arkansas rivers.
A steep ascentto the north brought them, however, to its summit.
Through the rocky gorge of the Balïïtz, Mr. Atkinson commenced his ascent of the Alatou.
Mr. Atkinson determined on attempting the ascent of this regal height.
At last they emerged from the forest gloom, at the foot of a steep ascentoverlaid with huge blocks of stones.
The ascent was arduous and perilous, but still worse the descent on the other side, owing to the exceeding steepness.
At Ouemonia Lake, the last village in the Altai, Mr. Atkinson halted in order to obtain a sufficient number of men and horses for his ascent to the source of the Katounaia, and the Bielouka, the highest point in the Altai chain.
With a glad heart she quitted Khartûm, and resumed the ascent of the White Nile, passing through a succession of landscapes fair and fertile.
What a beautiful panorama is presented to the view from the summit of this consecrated hill, only mounted by a steep ascent of one hundred steps.
