. The encyclopaedia of sport. ngs must be in-vestigated and thefacts made certain inadvance. Much maybe inferred from smallindications, or thewhole problem maybe solved by a distantview of the peak aday or two before theclimb, for cornices arevisible from a great distance under suitable illumination. If, how-ever, the party arrives on the ridge in ignoranceof the state of affairs, it is essential to make acareful investigation before proceeding. Fatal re-sults from the breaking of a cornice under a partyhave been avoided by one of the number leapingover to the other side of the ridge and holdi
. The encyclopaedia of sport. ngs must be in-vestigated and thefacts made certain inadvance. Much maybe inferred from smallindications, or thewhole problem maybe solved by a distantview of the peak aday or two before theclimb, for cornices arevisible from a great distance under suitable illumination. If, how-ever, the party arrives on the ridge in ignoranceof the state of affairs, it is essential to make acareful investigation before proceeding. Fatal re-sults from the breaking of a cornice under a partyhave been avoided by one of the number leapingover to the other side of the ridge and holdingon, but such fours de force are likely to be a rule, when a cornice breaks, a party on itwill be destroyed. A rarer danger is that of falling into tunnelsof ice or snow. Such tunnels seldom existafter the early part of the season, for they areformed by streams flowing down gullies andunder beds of avalanche snow or at the footof some small glacier. It is not till their roofsfall in that their nature becomes apparent. A Eergschrund. When the roof is becoming thin is the periloustime, for the tunnel is then at its biggest, andthe torrent within is most swollen. The ujjjjerpart of the gully will probably be filled witha strong, deep bed of snow, very inviting for aglissade. The place being low down on themountain, the rope will have been laid aside,and the members of the party may be widelyscattered. One will start glissading ; before herealises his situation, he is shooting over thethin crown of the tunnel, which gives way andlets him through. He is stunned by a fallof perhaps twenty feet or more and then carriedaway by tlie torrent. Such are exceptionaldangers which have to be specially guarded against. Weather—We havenow to -consider thelarge grouj) of dan-gers that result frombad weather in a highmountain region. In-cidentally, we havealready referred tosome which need notbe repeated in thisplace. Actual stormsseldom destroy moun-taineers directly, at allevents in
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