. Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere . nthe box containing the plates was suddenly seen to glidefrom its moorings, and set off on a voyage of discoverytowards the neve beneath. Franz started in pursuit, for-getful that he constituted a link in a chain, and came togrief and the length of his tether at the same he was detaching himself the rash adventurer slidmerrily onwards, and laughter was mingled with vexationas we saw Franz wildly plunging downwards and, thoughgaining ground at every step, arriving at the upper edgeof a crevasse just in time to see the object of his pursuittoppl
. Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere . nthe box containing the plates was suddenly seen to glidefrom its moorings, and set off on a voyage of discoverytowards the neve beneath. Franz started in pursuit, for-getful that he constituted a link in a chain, and came togrief and the length of his tether at the same he was detaching himself the rash adventurer slidmerrily onwards, and laughter was mingled with vexationas we saw Franz wildly plunging downwards and, thoughgaining ground at every step, arriving at the upper edgeof a crevasse just in time to see the object of his pursuittopple merrily over into the dark depths which he darednot approach more closely. We all rushed to the rescue,and after a short hunt Christian appeared holding thetruant aloft in triumph. Another attempt to photographwas more successful, and after sketching and indulging ina second breakfast we quitted our station at , and atnine reached the level surface of the Madatsch neve, oversome steep slopes intersected by numerous ing lo § ORTELER AND LOMBARD ALPS. 231 Fifteen minutes steady walking brought us to the footof the steep wall leading up to the col. Here step-cutting became necessary, the slope being very rapid : ourprogress was slow, and it was before we stood on thesummit. The view on the other side was at once mag-nificent and satisfactory—magnificent because it includedthe massive Orteler and glorious Konigsspitze with theKlein Zebru and other intervening peaks, and satisfactorybecause the hope of being able to descend to the level ofthe Val del Zebru was on the whole strengthened. For thethird time the camera was set up, and two slides, forminga panorama of the chain from the Orteler Spitze to theKonigsspitze, were rapidly secured by E., whilst I workedaway more slowly at my outline. Depositing our various traps on the col, we struck offat to our right, climbed a steepish ridge broken inits lower part by rocks, and then keeping a little to thele
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