This was my companions' first excursion into the High Sierra, and as I was almost always alone in my mountaineering, the way that the fresh beauty was reflected in their faces made for me a novel and interesting study.

All my first day was pure pleasure; simply mountaineering indulgence, crossing the dry pathways of the ancient glaciers, tracing happy streams, and learning the habits of the birds and marmots in the groves and rocks.

Arriving on the summit of this dividing crest, one of the most exciting pieces of pure wilderness was disclosed that I ever discovered in all my mountaineering.

Here our blessed stream rests from its rocky wanderings, all its mountaineering done,no more foaming rock-leaping, no more wild, exulting song.

They did not like the cold, and the rain made them look deplorably wretched, but they got rations and drinking-water right up to the crags where our infantry were practising mountaineering.

Comparatively courageous as she had learned to be, and free from all affectation of pretty feminine fear, Eveena could never realise the practical immunity from ordinary danger which a strength virtually double that I had enjoyed on Earth, and thorough familiarity with the dangers of travel, of mountaineering, and of the chase, afforded me.

No Guides have a better reputation than those of Gavarnie, and of these Henri Passet and Celestin Passet have made all the great ascents of the French and Spanish Pyrenees; Pierre Pujo, Pierre Brioul, Poc, and Haurine are also men of experience in mountaineering.

As I stroll about these hills, more leisurely, more thoughtfully than I used to do of old in my hot mountaineering days, I have tried to think out what it is that makes the Alpine landscape so marvelous a tonic to the spiritwhat is the special charm of it to those who have once felt all its inexhaustible magic.

Consequently mountaineering is little in evidence, conversation about ascents is seldom heard, and ice-axes, ropes, and nailed boots are seen more often in shop windows than in the streets.

It is a place not so much for "les grands excursions" as for long walks, easy climbs and the beginnings of mountaineering.

I wondered whether Grim would throw him over the parapet, and whether we two would have to take our chance of mountaineering down that ragged corner of the wall.

Fly-casting on Stow lake in Golden Gate Park, regattas off the Aquatic Park and the Marina, trap shooting, hiking, mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada range, and a diversity of other activities are directed by clubs and organized groups.

SEE BRUECKNER, LEO J. FARQUHAR, FRANCIS P. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.

High conquest; the story of mountaineering.

Challenge; an anthology of the literature of mountaineering.

SEE BRUECKNER, LEO J. FARQUHAR, FRANCIS P. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.

KING, CLARENCE. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.

High conquest; the story of mountaineering.

GEIST, ROLAND C. Hiking, camping and mountaineering.

But I have long anticipated that a similar day would come for me, when I should no longer be able to pursue my favourite sport of mountaineering.

But I am no less effectually debarredit matters not howfrom mountaineering.

By way of preface, however, I admit that mountaineering, in my sense of the word, is a sport.

Let me try to recall some of the impressions which mountaineering has left with me, and see whether they throw any light upon the subject.

Now the first merit of mountaineering is that it enables one to have what theologians would call an experimental faith in the size of mountainsto substitute a real living belief for a dead intellectual assent.

The fact is that that which gives its inexpressible charm to mountaineering is the incessant series of exquisite natural scenes, which are for the most part enjoyed by the mountaineer alone.