I see them once more in the gully, but they descend more rapidly than they climbed up it, for the more daring of the party glissade down the lower part, and so home.
Some of the coolies tried an impromptu glissade here, and seemed rather pleased at the result; but it was a dangerous experiment, for various rocks and stones awaited their arrival at the bottom.
The next objects that met the eye were the stone slopes far below in the valley, and unconsciously I began to picture to myself the duration and the result of an involuntary glissade on such a mountain-side.
Once started we went at racing speed, sometimes getting a long glissade down soft snow, sometimes a run down small stone debris; it was rather hard on poor Lor Khan, who was not shod for this kind of work, and was soon left far behind.
To glissade is a pleasant sensation, Of which all have written, or read; But to taste it, in perfect perfection, You should learn to glissade on your head.
At a certain point they came to the head of a slope so steep, that the snow had been unable to lie on it, and it was impossible to glissade on the pure ice.
By the time she reached Clairville the sun was again shining and the beauty of the glissade beginning to wane.
Snow was again on the ground, every twig encased in a round tube of glassy ice through which showed the grey, brown, or black stem, for a wonderful glissade had followed the milder weather.
Somehow these things always seem to come in the way, so it is as well to glissade only when there is something soft to tumble into.
In my dreams I glissade delightfully, but in practice I find that somehow the snow will not behave properly, and that my alpenstock will get between my legs.
The right bank was gained without any trouble, and we found there numerous beds of hard snow (avalanche debris) down which we could run or glissade as fast as we liked.
Nothing in the experience of climbers is more exhilarating than a good glissade down a long snow-slope.
In about five minutes we reached the top of the long snow-slope, where we enjoyed a glorious glissadeand rapidly descended more than a thousand feet.
I could clearly track the course pursued by Bennen and myself eleven years previously--the spurs of rock and slopes of snow, the steep and weathered crest of the mountain, and the line of our swiftglissade as we returned.
They must have had full confidence in their power to stop the glissade which seemed so imminent, or else they were reckless of the lives they had in charge.
The crossing of those rocks was a most awkward piece of work; a slip was imminent, and the effects of the consequent glissade not to be calculated.
Before, however, I could do so I came in contact with something which jerked it out of my hand and turned me round, so that I continued my tremendous glissade head downwards, lying on my back.
The two plucky mountaineers who have competed in an involuntary race to the bottom of a frozen hillside are Mr Birkbeck, in his famous slide near Mont Blanc, and Mr Whymper, when he made his startling glissade on the Matterhorn.
On the way they passed the glissade on the side of the mountain, and one of them stopped and pointed to the groove in the snow where Gordon had descended.
I found rather a good glissade just behind these cliffs running into Eskdale.
Half-way down he struck a glissade which rare winters of great snow form along an old stone wall, and so slid out of the mist.
The right bank was gained without any trouble, and we found there numerous beds of hard snow (avalanche debris), down which we could run orglissade as fast as we liked.
Somehow, these things always seem to come in the way, so it is as well to glissade only when there is something soft to tumble into.
I was aware of the danger of the glissade down Ararat, and we therefore planned our course with care.
The Swiss and myself determined to try a glissade down the snow slope; my cousin preferred to adhere to the rocks.
Yes, it is steep; but we can do it, and if we slip it will only be a glissadedown here again.
There, boy, it has been a splendid lesson for you, in a place where the worst that could have happened to you was a sharp glissade and some skin off your hands and face.
I cannot tell how far it was; but I seemed to glissade right down into the valley, where I was fixed for a few minutes right up to my armpits.
