This way is shorter than that by Antarangra, but the ascents are much steeper.
The Indians maintain that coca is the best preventive of that difficulty of respiration felt in the rapid ascents of the Cordillera and the Puna.
A crupper and breastplate are almost indispensable, from the steep ascents and descents in the mountains.
Next morning, accompanied by two young Italians named Durando and Botto, one of whom had made many previousascents with Captain Charbonnet, they started again.
All the safe second-class ascents up which one might wade through fresh snow without risk, we had accomplished over and over again.
Joseph Monand, was making a series of ascents in the Maritime Alps with Sospello as their headquarters.
Previous ascents had proved so lengthy, necessitating, I think, in nearly every case, the passing of a night on the rocks or the glacier, that I thought it would be highly desirable if some shorter route could be discovered.
Should he quickly adapt himself to the work, the guides will trust him more and more, taking him on difficult ascents and allowing him occasionally to share the responsibility of leading on an ascent and coming down last when descending.
His first few attempts that season were frustrated by bad weather, and so persistently did the rain continue to fall that for a couple of weeks no high ascents could be thought of.
But she wished for the first time that she were a younger woman, or had made those ascents many years ago; she would have liked to reveal herself spontaneously to this interesting young man who was so deeply in love with her.
There was still the encircling fringe of ancient trees, and an avenue on the west stretching from north to south; on the east side was the broad lawn from which the balloon ascents took place.
This was nothing new to her or to the sight-seers of Paris, where she and her husband had made hundreds of ascents on the backs of horses, and even ‘a great many ascents with a bull.
Vincent de Groof was a Belgian who had constructed a flying machine on which he made some ascents with doubtful success in his native land.
In the balloon ascents of Cremorne (as already remarked) there was often a dangerous element, usually a parachute descent.
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Charles Green, the balloonist, was called in, and began that long series of Cremorne ascentswhich a spice of eccentricity and danger always rendered popular.
The garden had its concerts and occasional ballets, and its ballooning, of which a tale is told by Henry Coxwell, aeronaut, who made a series of ascents from this place.
Between Kunes and Kuru the narrowness of the river is probably at its maximum, as the road lies altogether along a ridge, elevated perhaps a thousand feet, to which the ascents and descents are extremely abrupt.
The two streams, at their junction, flowed through an extremely deep rocky ravine, so that I had several fatiguing ascents and descents before I succeeded in passing into the valley which I wished to ascend.
A succession of steep ascents and descents followed for four or five miles, throughout which distance the ravine through which the river ran was narrow and precipitous and quite without villages.
One of these ascents was not much less than 1000 feet perpendicular, up a narrow lateral ravine, and then over a very steep bank of loose shingle, descending again with great abruptness to the water's edge.
Occasionally a rugged and difficult footpath may be found to lead among these precipices, by frequent steep ascents and descents, at no great distance above the river.
The remainder of the day's journey consisted of a succession of ascents and descents, mostly long and fatiguing, with occasionally half a mile nearly level.
The trail now led us up very steep ascents on a forest-clad mountain slope for several hours.
In the course of a great many ascents of this peak I have had several interesting adventures.
All my photographic plates, the result of many excursions and mountain ascents in a region where the camera had never before been used, were placed on one of the horses, for which purpose one of the most sure-footed animals had been selected.
He has made many first ascents in the range of Mont Blanc, mademoiselle.
But of the earlier ascentshe had spoken differently, though the difference was subtle and hard to define.
For instance: Garratt Skinner had spoken and had asked questions about the new ascents made, the new passes crossed within the last twenty years, just as a man would ask who had obtained his knowledge out of books.
Our winding trail up steep, rockyascents pointed true; an hour's toil would carry us over.
To the west of Little and Romagne woods many patches of woods gave cover for machine-guns on the ascents of the Maldah ridge, which ran to the end of the Aire wall where the Aire bent sharply westward to the gap of Grandpré.
Above the upper screes at the foot of the higher crags several ascents may be planned from below.
The Silurian beds form considerable precipices upon the north, almost enclosing numerous tarns, from which interesting ascents may be made.
It commands one of the simplest ascents of Snowdon, but by no means the most interesting.
In search of rare plants the writer has made several distinct ascents above the Stilloges, and also at Coonshingaun, quite apart from the easier gully tracks, by which the ordinary visitor gains the top.
Ascents and climbs innumerable may be made from here, and many valuable notes on climbs may be found here in a certain volume secured from the profane mob by lock and key.
The following ascents are noted in the book at Penygwrhyd, that by T.
Spouts have been generally believed ascentsof water from below, to the region of the clouds, and whirlwinds the means of conveyance.
The ascents and descents were very steep, and to make them passable for laden animals much jungle-cutting and road-making had to be done.
He compares the sharpness of the passes to "the swords of the Feringees," and their tortuous ascents to "the curls of a blackamoor's hair!
The river being shut in by high and rocky mountains, our path took several most abrupt turns and startling ascents and descents in its meanderings, and proved altogether the worst for coolies to travel that we had as yet encountered.
And this were an allowable way of compute, and still to be retained, were the site of the Stars as inalterable, and their ascents as invariable as primitive Astronomy conceived them.
Often as I had before attempted steep ascents with horses in Greece, I never saw anything so astonishing as this.
Probably no British aeronaut has made more daring and exciting ascentsthan Mr. Green--unless it be a member of the famous Spencer family, of whom we speak in another chapter.
During the close of the eighteenth and the opening years of the nineteenth century there had been numerous ascents in Charlier balloons, both in Britain and on the Continent.
It is said that Mr. Green went aloft over a thousand times, and in later years he was accompanied by various passengers who were making ascents for scientific purposes.
Giffard, inventor of the steam injector, had already made balloon ascentswhen he turned to aeronautical propulsion, and constructed a steam engine of 5 horsepower with a weight of only 100 lbs.
France grew used to balloon ascents in the course of a few months, in spite of the brewing of such a storm as might have been calculated to wipe out all but purely political interests.
Dawn found them examining the ascents on the south side of the mesa but they found no traces and as the sun came well up they followed the only possible way toward the mountains.
The geological formation of the slopes of these two valleys is described in the accounts of the various ascents of the mountains bounding them.
In the profile the eye ignores the details with which the investigator during many toilsome ascents has filled the pages of his note-books.
Several traverses and ascents were made by me; but much more in the way of exploration remains to be done.
The path, rough and apparently not much used, ran along streams, up steep ascents and down awkward descents, over slippery boulders and fallen trees, up the sides and along the crests of densely wooded mountains.
First ascents in Great Britain; James Tytler and Vincenzo Lunardi.
Even in the previous year reports of the French ascents had produced a fever of excitement in London.
The public mania for ballooning as a spectacle began with the ascents of Vincenzo Lunardi, secretary to the Neapolitan ambassador in England.
A horse is not seen to advantage in the car of a balloon, but it is a marvel that a horse should be seen there at all, and equestrian ascents became one of the attractions of the Cremorne Gardens in 1821.
The best of the material had been sent to Bechuanaland, so the equipment was very imperfect, but ascents made in a balloon of one of the smaller types, at El Teb and Tamai, and elsewhere, proved useful for reconnaissance.
The earliest balloonascents in England followed close upon the French experiments.
Thereafter ascentsbecame so numerous that it is impossible to keep count of them.
He survived these and other mishaps, unhurt, and after making more than a hundred ascents in airships, turned his attention to aeroplanes, and was the first man to rise from French soil in a flying machine.
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