Switzerland ; and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and Tyrol ; handbook for travellers . s Bossons (4230; restaurant), on the leftlateral moraine. Fine view of the huge glacier, overshadowed bythe Mont-Blanc du Tacul (13,910); on the left rise the Aiguilles duMidi (12,608) and du Plan (12,050). We descend to the grottohewn in the glacier (adm. 1 fr.) and cross the glacier (guide, ad-visable for novices, 2 fr.; woollen socks to prevent slipping 1 fr.)to the O/a hr.) Chalet du Serrot (4455; rfmts.), on the right lateralmoraine. We descend over debris and through wood, crossing twotorrents,
Switzerland ; and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and Tyrol ; handbook for travellers . s Bossons (4230; restaurant), on the leftlateral moraine. Fine view of the huge glacier, overshadowed bythe Mont-Blanc du Tacul (13,910); on the left rise the Aiguilles duMidi (12,608) and du Plan (12,050). We descend to the grottohewn in the glacier (adm. 1 fr.) and cross the glacier (guide, ad-visable for novices, 2 fr.; woollen socks to prevent slipping 1 fr.)to the O/a hr.) Chalet du Serrot (4455; rfmts.), on the right lateralmoraine. We descend over debris and through wood, crossing twotorrents, to the Cascade du Dard (p. 353) and thence return to(1 hr.) Chamonix. From the Chalet des Bossons a bridle-path skirts the left side of theGlacier des Bossons and then ascends in zigzags through fine wood to the(H/2 hr.) Chalet des P>/ramides (0215; L. 3^2 fr.). Thence we may crossthe upper basin of the glacier in 36 mm. (10 min. more if the pyramidsor ice-needles are visited) and descend on the right bank to the Chaletdu Serrot (36 min.; see above). — From the Chalet des Pyramides a. Chamoni1034 Pierre-Pointue. CHAMONIX. Map, p. 846.—V. R. 74. 353 path on the left side of the glacier ascends to the (l3/4 hr.) top of theMontague de la Cote (8494), whence the Grands Mulets may he reachedin 13/4 hr. via the Jonction (p. 354). To the *Plan de lAiguille (7223), 3-31/* hrs. (good bridle-path; guide unnecessary; mule with attendant 18 fr., with returnby the Mtmtanvert 24 fr.). We follow the left bank of the Arveacross the railway and past the hamlets of Le Praz-Conduit andLesBarats (to the left, the upper path) to (20 min.) Les Tissours;hence we ascend to the left, and at a again to the left(finger-post; to the right the path to the Pierre-Pointue, see below)through wood, with fine views of the Chamonix valley and, fartherup, of the Glacier des Bossons, the Aiguille and Dome du Gouter,Mont Blanc, and the Aig. du Midi. Beyond the (l1^ hr.) Chalet du2Vois(5547; rfmts.)
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