Contents
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Preface
- Introductory
- The Ascent of Mont Pelvoux
- The Mont Cenis - The Fell Railway
- My First Scramble on the Matterhorn
- Renewed Attempts to Ascend the Matterhorn
- The Val Tournanche - the Breuiljoch Zermatt - Ascent of the Grand Tournalin
- Our Sixth Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn
- From St. Michel to La Bérarde on the Mont Cenis road by the Col des Aiguilles d’Arvess, Col de Martignare and the Brèche de la Meije
- The Ascent of the Pointe des Écrins
- From Val Louise to La Bérarde by the Col de la Pilatte
- Passage of the Col de Triolet and Ascents of Mont Dolent, Aiguille de Tré-la-Tête and Aiguille d'Argentière
- The Moming pass - Zermatt
- The Ascent of the Grand Cornier
- The Ascent of the Dent Blanche
- Lost on the Col d'Hérens My Seventh Attempt to Ascend the Matterhorn
- Valley of Aosta and Ascent of the Grandes Jorasses
- The Col Dolent
- Ascent of the Aiguille Verte
- The Col de Talèfre
- Ascent of the Ruinette The Matterhorn
- The Ascent of the Matterhorn
- Descent of the Matterhorn Appendix
About this version
Scrambles Amongst the Alps describes the nine years from 1860 to 1869 that Edward Whymper spent climbing in the Alps. Whymper made dozens of first ascents and acquired a reputation as one of the best in the field of alpine mountaineering. Whymper made seven attempts at summiting mountaineering's Holy Grail of the time - the Matterhorn. He succeeded on his eighth attempt becoming the first to reach its peak. This success came at a terrible cost, as four of his companions fell to their deaths on the descent. It was a tragedy that would cast a shadow over the remainder of his life.
Edward Whymper was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author. Whymper also made first ascents on the Mont-Blanc massif and in the Pennine Alps, Chimborazo in South America, and the Canadian Rockies. His exploration of Greenland contributed to an advance in Arctic exploration. Edward Whymper died on the 16th September 1911 aged 71 in Chamonix Mont-Blanc and was buried in the Chemin du Biolay Cemetary.
This version of Scrambles Amongst the Alps contains minor modern spelling revisions and a simplification of structure. It is based on the original text by Edward Whymper that is available in the public domain.
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