Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . nd so we proceeded one by one.* I suppose thatthe lower part of the ascent was at an angle of above 60°,though only for a short way. Above, the snow being * In the narrative of the subsequent ascent of the Jungfrau by M. , we find a striking account of a descent into this terrific crevasse ofone of the guides, Banholzer by name, above referred to. M. Studerin descending had allowed his cap to drop into the abyss—nothing wouldhinder young Banholzer from trying to
Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . nd so we proceeded one by one.* I suppose thatthe lower part of the ascent was at an angle of above 60°,though only for a short way. Above, the snow being * In the narrative of the subsequent ascent of the Jungfrau by M. , we find a striking account of a descent into this terrific crevasse ofone of the guides, Banholzer by name, above referred to. M. Studerin descending had allowed his cap to drop into the abyss—nothing wouldhinder young Banholzer from trying to recover it. Tied by a rope, 95feet in length, he descended amidst ice walls, and overhanging masses,and gigantic icicles everywhere menacing detachment, and when he couldget no lower by aid of the rope, he detached himself, and perceiving the ob-ject of his search still below him, be quitted the rope and clambered aloneout of sight and hearing of his fellows into the dim and awful gulf. Hedescended in all some 120 feet, then coolly returned with his prize ! Thecrevasse, however, there seemed as unfathomable as 318 ASCENT OF THE JUNGFRAU. soft, it was easy to keep our footing, and we ascended toa sort of hollow where we could rest a moment. The snowhere lay at an angle of 50°. Jacob Leuthold and some of the party had now ad-vanced to a second crevasse more to the right, whichthreatened to become a gulph of separation between thefixed and the detached ice, so that the mass we had mount-ed since quitting the ladder might be considered as buthalf supported. Jacob and three others had crossed thiscrevasse, and I stood a little below it, when a distinct noisewas heard beneath the ice. Jacob felt a sensible subsidence. Itgave us an unpleasant sensation. We got all safely, however,across the crevasse, and mounting obliquely a soft steepsnowy surface, which had been first carefully sounded witha staff, we arrived at two oclock upon the col at the head ofthe Roth-Thai, a prec
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