. Christian herald and signs of our times . Alpine Disasters. LMOST every season, some livesare sacrificed to the passion forAlpine adventure. Though diffi-cult mountains are presumablydangerous, easy mountains areby no means universally Blanc is one great instance Jtothe contrary. It is the easiest large peakin the Alps, and it also has the longestdeath-roll. The Lyskamm—where thelatest Alpine accident took place—is an-other case in point. An amateur of fairlyathletic habit might go up the Lyskammand down again and never suspect thathe had been in danger. But the guidesknow better.
. Christian herald and signs of our times . Alpine Disasters. LMOST every season, some livesare sacrificed to the passion forAlpine adventure. Though diffi-cult mountains are presumablydangerous, easy mountains areby no means universally Blanc is one great instance Jtothe contrary. It is the easiest large peakin the Alps, and it also has the longestdeath-roll. The Lyskamm—where thelatest Alpine accident took place—is an-other case in point. An amateur of fairlyathletic habit might go up the Lyskammand down again and never suspect thathe had been in danger. But the guidesknow better. They know that whenonce you get on the arete, you are in dan-ger all the time. All along the great arete,which is so smooth and broad and easy. SCENE OF THE DISASTER ON THE LYSKAMM Have vou ever read that storv whichGibbon tells of Abu Taher? At the headof the Carmnthians he was approachingBagdad with five hundred men, and theyhad thirty thousand mercenary troops tomeet him, and he was told, We havebroken down the bridges, and we have cutoff your retreat, and the best thing youcan do is to make the best possible terms,tor we will annihilate your five hundredsoldiers in a very short time. His answerwas, Your master has not in his thirtythousand men three men who will do hisbidding as any one of these five hundredmen will do mine. Then said he to oneof his soldiers, Plunge a dagger in yourbreast, and he did it. He said to another,Leap off yonder precipice, and to an-other, Drown yourself in the Tigris,-and soon there was a mangled form on therocks on the one side, and a drowning formin the river on theother. Nowtell your master what you haveseen, and tell him that beforenight I will chain his generalswith my dogs. And he
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