Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . SKETCH OF THE TOP OF THE JUNGFRAU. could only remain one at a time.* The annexed figures(sketched soon after the ascent from recollection) will givean idea of the very pe- rfl culiar form of this singu-lar mountain top. Thewhole is an exceedinglynarrow ridge directednearly north and south,flanked on each side byterrific precipices. Thesummit B, which is snowcovered, is the one firstreached. The part A isbut a few feet higher, inform almost like a bee-hive, of snow piled
Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy . SKETCH OF THE TOP OF THE JUNGFRAU. could only remain one at a time.* The annexed figures(sketched soon after the ascent from recollection) will givean idea of the very pe- rfl culiar form of this singu-lar mountain top. Thewhole is an exceedinglynarrow ridge directednearly north and south,flanked on each side byterrific precipices. Thesummit B, which is snowcovered, is the one firstreached. The part A isbut a few feet higher, inform almost like a bee-hive, of snow piled up,and so small that evenwhen smoothed over andtrodden down, scarcely * The party on the top consisted of MM. Agassiz, Desor, Dnchatelier,myself, and four guides. Y. PLAN OF TOP. 322 ASCENT OF THE JUNGFRAU. afforded footing for more than one person at a time. Theaccess to it is along the ridge above mentioned, apparentlyof heaped snow lying at the natural angle of repose, ter-minating in precipices on each side. The snow was freshbut binding, and the guides made a series of footsteps withthe toes inwards, on one slope of the ridge, by means ofwhich we advanced sideways, securing ourselves by thealpenstock planted on the opposite slope, until we reachedthe apex. In this proceeding, however, though awkward,there was no real danger, the footing being good. Here on snows, where never human footOf common mortal trod, we . . tread ; And this most steep fantastic pinnacle, The fretwork of some earthquake—where the clouds Pause to repose themselves in passing by. * It was four oclock when we reached the summit of theJungfrau, and we staid half an hour. The view to the eastwas generally clear—the Finsteraar and Schreckhorn, theglacier of Aletsch, the
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