The rock had been scaled away by weathering parallel to the planes of foliation, the surfaces left behind being excessively smooth, and in many cases flanked by slopes and couloirs of perilous steepness.
The high ridges afforded me some relief, but they were separated by couloirs in which the snow had accumulated, and through which I sometimes floundered waist-deep.
The cutting of steps across these couloirs proved to be so tedious and fatiguing that I urged Bennen to abandon them and try the ridge once more.
Couloirs look prodigiously steep when seen from the front, and, so viewed, it is impossible to be certain of their inclination within many degrees.
Snow-couloirs are nothing more or less than gullies partly filled by snow.
Snow, however, does actually lie at steeper angles incouloirs than in any other situation: forty-five to fifty degrees is not an uncommon inclination.
By following the glaciers, the snow-slopes above, and the couloirs rising out of them, it is usually possible to get very close to the summits of the great peaks in the Alps.
Snow-couloirs are therefore to be commended because they economize time.
Snow, however, does actually lie at steeper angles in couloirs than in any other situations;--45 deg.
By following the glaciers, the snow-slopes above, and the couloirs rising from them, it is usually possible to get very close to the summits of the great peaks in the Alps.
Couloirs are invariably protected at their bases by bergschrunds.
Snow couloirs are therefore to be commended because they economise time.
Right in front of us, and from its proximity more gigantic to the eye, was the Schreckhorn, while from couloirs and mountain-slopes the matter of glaciers yet to be was poured into the vast basin on the rim of which we now stood.
Previous to reaching the half-way spring, where the peasant girls offer strawberries to travellers in summer, we crossed two large couloirsfilled with the debris of avalanches which had fallen the night before.
The Finsteraarhorn sends down a number of cliffy buttresses, separated from each other by wide couloirs filled with ice and snow.
Future climbers will probably find that of the three couloirs the western is comparatively easy; the central may perhaps be ascended by climbing the lower rocks on the right, and the eastern by a long detour to the left.
This northern face consists of four buttresses, with three fairly well-defined couloirs between them.
If, therefore, there is too great a thickness of fresh snow to allow of steps being cut through this into the ice beneath, such couloirsare unsafe.
This danger must always be present in couloirs to a greater or less extent in such seasons as the one we were experiencing.
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