Our young folks [serial] . falling into a chasm is to be old rope which Whympers party carried should have been put to useonly after the supply of good rope was exhausted. It was a terrible blunder. They had reached the most difficult part of the descent. For somereason they had neglected to attach a rope to the rocks above, to hold onby, in getting down. Croz, the best of the guides, was ahead. Hadow, theleast experienced of the Englishmen, came next, and Croz from below wasassisting him, by taking hold of his feet and placing them in their properpositions. Notwithstanding this pr
Our young folks [serial] . falling into a chasm is to be old rope which Whympers party carried should have been put to useonly after the supply of good rope was exhausted. It was a terrible blunder. They had reached the most difficult part of the descent. For somereason they had neglected to attach a rope to the rocks above, to hold onby, in getting down. Croz, the best of the guides, was ahead. Hadow, theleast experienced of the Englishmen, came next, and Croz from below wasassisting him, by taking hold of his feet and placing them in their properpositions. Notwithstanding this precaution, Hadow slipped, and as he fellknocked Croz over. The weight of the two pulled Hudson after them ; andLord Douglas went next. Whymper and old Peter planted themselvesfirmly, and would have held the others, but the sudden strain on the rope 144 Mountains and Glaciers. [March, was too great, — it broke, — and Croz and the three Englishmen went flyingin the air over precipices nearly four thousand feet in The Breaking of the Rope. Killed ? said two or three of us, in no little excitement. Killed, of course ; dashed to pieces ; even the remains of Lord Douglascould never be found. I might tell you many such stories, and talk to you all night aboutmountains, said the Professor.* But one more anecdote must is one that illustrates the use of a rope. Professor Tyndall and Sir John Lubbock, in setting out to climb theJungfrau, had sent on ahead two porters, with ropes and provisions, to agrotto where they intended to spend the night. They followed, and reacheda glacier, over which their course lay. You know what a glacier is, — oneof those immense, slowly moving masses of ice which take the place ofrivers in cold regions. The Alps abound with them. What causes them ? Abel asked. What causes rivers ? The fall of rain, I suppose. Well, the fall of snow makes glaciers. Snow accumulates in enormousquantities in Arctic regions and on lofty mountains, and gra
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