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.300 VAL DI ZOLLO. Peaks. Pelmo , 10,377 ft. See p. 314 and 'Alpine Guide,' p. 525; 1st column, 13 lines from bottom, read, ' from the S. and E. sides of the mountain.' The route from Zoppe is tlie same as that from Borea followed by Mr. Ball. Agosto di Marco of Brusadaz is a good guide. Civetta, 10,440 ft. See 'Alpine Guide,' p. 526. Monte Moscosin. ~\ Monte Vescova, >E. of Agordo. Monte Pdf. I Sasso di Bosco Nero. '1 Unascended _ E- of Forno di ZoUo . Monte Sforniti. J , Passes. Forcella del

to Alleghe or Caprile, mule-path. ' Alpine Guide,' p. 526. Passo di Duram. Agordo to San Tiziano. 'Alpine Guide,' p. 524. Passo Moscosin. Agordo to Forno di Zoldo. This pass is the depression between Monte Piacedel and Monte Moscosin. It connects the heads of Val Crasa and Val Pramper di Zoldo. The Passo Pramper, between Monte Pramper and

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in the haze, the mounds which he erected as monuments of his widest power, the huge terminal moraines of Somma and Solferino. Behind him lies his last refuge, the great granite castle from whose summit his forces cannot be dislodged even by the summer sun of Lombardy. Across this fastness we intended to make our way. For the next six hours we steadily pursued a westward course over the snow-fields. Now we wandered at the foot of Monte Folletto 1 amongst snow-caves huge enough to puzzle for a moment

to his enquiries about ttys summit, furnishes a good illustration of the difficulty of naming a peak :—' Botteri declared the mountain was nameless ; from others I got the names Monte Mulat, Monte Folletto, Monte Marmotta (from Marmot), Monte Calotta (from cap). I chose finally the name Folletto (from moun tain-spirit, Kobold).'

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TARASP AXI) L1VIGX0 BISTRI CT. 355 Monte Ze/nbrasca, 10,700 ft. (?), 10,827 Studer. The ground at the head of Val Tressenda is very inaccurately laid down on all maps. I assume the snow-peak conspicuous at the head of Val Tressenda to be Monte Zembrasca, and the slightly higher rock summit lying further E. to be the Monte delle Mine. Punta del Campo, 10,843 ft. (Monte Vazzugna of A. C. map) as cended in 1866. Between Val Viola and Val Tellina. Cima di Piazza, 11,713ft. (?), first ascended

to Lower Engadine, ascend Piz Liriard or Piz Pisoc, returning by Scarlthal to Zernetz. Livigno bv Passo del Biavel ; to chàlets of Monte Elia in A 7 al Viola by Passo di Foscagno ; ascend Cima di Piazza, and descend through Val Grosina or to the Baths of Bormio. CHAPTER VI. BERGAMASQUE VALLEYS. Approaches and Carriage-roads. TV r Milan-Lecco and Milan-Bergamo railroads, the Val Tellina ; the high- reads from Bergamo, Brescia, and the Val Camonica to Clusone ; Varenna aid Bellano on the Lago di Como

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ICC MONTE CASTELLO. sible precipice. But otherwise the view was limited, and we readily decided to add the Monte del Castello to our day's work. A most convenient goat-path, skirting the roots of the rock-teeth, brought us to the edge of the ice. The glacier was steep and slippery, and only just manageable without steps. The top proved a double-crested ridge of loose granite boulders. On the further and slightly lower point was a wooden cross, planted probably by some shepherd from the Val del

Leno, the glen on the southern flank of the mountain. It would be easy to climb Monte del Castello from the level of Lago d'Arno and to descend by this valley to Boazze ; and the route is recommended to mountaineers who already know Yal di Fum. In itself, Monte Castello is, it must be confessed, a very inferior peak. It does not reach 10,000 feet, and it is out- topped by a southern outlier, probably Monte Frerone. But as a view-point it has merits. The long line of glaciers and peaks between the

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of these side glens and byways the reader is referred to Tscbudi's ' Schweizerführer,' vol. iii. ' Ostschweiz,' a very handy work. It is only possible here to indicate a few routes and excursions. Car riage travellers must in each valley return the way they came ; except that, from Clusone, they may turn eastwards to the Lago d'Iseo. 1. (Described in the text as far as Monte Gleno). Monte Grigna, Introbbio, Val Torta, Branzi, Passo di Gornigo, Bondione, Monte Gleno, descend to Schilpario in Val

di Scalve, cross one of the pisses to Val Camonica, or drive back to Clusone (5 days). 2. From Lecco through Val Imagna to Almenno and Val Brembana, from Zogno by Oltre il Colle to Ponte di Nossa and Clusone, ascend Presolana, and descend through the lower Val di Scalve to Val Camonica (3 days). 3. From Sondrio ascend Corno Stella (8,595 ft.) by a path recently made by the Italian Alpine Club ; descend to Branzi ; cross Passo di Gornigo, or by the sources of the Brembo to Fiu- menero ; ascend Monte

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badly laid down in all maps except the A. C. map of Switzerland. Peaks. Monte della Disgrazia , 12,057 ft. See p. 84, and ' Alpine Guide,' p. 408. In ordinary circumstances, about 5 hrs. from the highest Sasso Bisolo ehàlets, or 9 hrs. from the Baths. Has also been ascended by Italians by the Passo della Preda Rossa starting from the Alpe Bali on the Val Malenco side. Monte f-issone, 10,800 ft. (?) See Sissone Pass. Cima di Rosso, 11,024 ft. From the Maloya, an easy snow-peak, ascent 5 hrs., descent

, lower and more difficult than the last. Ascent 6 hrs. ; descent 4 hrs. Monte Lis d'Arnasca, 10,500 ft. (?)'i No information; quite unknown to Monte Spluga , 9,933 ft. j English mountaineers. Routes. Carriages can only go to the Baths and back. Riders may visit Val Bondasca from Promontogno, the Albigna Glacier from Vico Soprano, the foot of the Forno Glacier from the Maloya Inn, and Alp Mazza in Porcellizza from the Baths. Por climbers, the following route embraces the most inviting peaks :—Ascend

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PASSO 1)1 MONTE CAMPO. 165 track, which makes a long circuit from the lower valley, and is said to be passable for horses, which the stair case we had climbed could scarcely be called, though cows were evidently in the habit of using it. When we left our boy it was quite a pleasure, after the impositions of the last few days, to see his simple delight over a piece of silver. The metal is rare in Italy in these days of paper currency. The lake, seen from the high terraces which we were now

traversing, appeared to be about three miles in length. It does not entirely fill the basin, at the upper end of which is an alp and a small pool. Higher up on the right lie the ice-fields and blunt summits of Monte Castello. The ridge to be crossed now comes into view—a long saw, the teeth of which, tolerably uniform in height, stretch from a rocky eminence (Monte Campo) on the north to the glaciers on the south. The path, running as a terrace along a steep hillside, gains, with little climbing, a broad

grassy gap near the foot of Monte Campo. The ruined cabin on the crest may either be a douanier's outpost or a relic of the Garibaldian corps, which in 1866 bivouacked here with bold intentions but small result. This country has not been fortunate for the Italian Irregulars. A body who established themselves near Ponte di Legno, and talked largely about invading Yal di Sole, were surprised one morning by the Austrians anticipating their visit. The unlucky volunteers were all at break fast, scattered

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64 FASSO LI MONTE SISSO NE. several small glaciers descending from the highest summits. Three ice-streams flowed towards us—one from im mediately under the Pico della Speranza; the second from the angle in the chain under Monte Sissone ; the third lay far more to the left, and was barred at its head by steep cliffs extending to the Monte Sissone, and broken only near that peak by a narrow snow- trough. The head of the central ice-stream was a broad saddle, and for this we determined to steer

. I had a presentiment that it would overlook Val Malenco. But that point gained, it would be easy to reach the ridge of Monte Sissone, and probably without losing much time by the circuit. We ascended for a long way over the boulders on the south of the central glacier. They offered villainous foothold, but the ice was so slippery that we gave them the preference, and were rewai'ded for our pains by finding some remarkably fine crystals. Leaving solid ground only a few hundred yards below the crest

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, burst into sight. Surely there are few sights which appeal at once to the senses and imagination with so much power. Possibly the Indian plains from some Himalayan spur may have richer colours, certainly the northern steppe from Elbruz has greater boundlessness. But they are not so much mixed up with associations. This is Italy ; there are Milan, Monza, Bergamo, a hundred battle-fields from the Trebia to Magenta. It is natural to compare the Grigna panorama with those from Monte Generoso and Monte

San Primo. As a perfect view of the Lake of Como the Monte San Primo is unrivalled. The delicious dip from Monte Generoso on to Lugano perhaps surpasses in beauty the

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xiv CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. EAST OF THE BERNINA. TARASP AND THE UVIGNO DISTRICT. FAGS The Prätigau—Verstankla Thor—Tarasp—Piz Pisoc—Passo del Dia- vel—Livigno— Monte Zembrasca—Passo di Dosdè—Val Grosina . 94 CHAPTER VL THE BERGAMASCHE MOUNTAINS. Val dEsino—The Grigna—Introbbio—Forcella di Cedrino—Val Torta —An Old Traveller—Val Brembana—Pranzi—Passo di Gornigo— Gromo—Val Seriana—Bondione—Monte Gleno—Val Belviso . 121 C HAP TER VII. VAI, CAMONICA AND THE GIUDICARLA. The Aprica Pass—Edolo—Val

Camonica—Cedegolo—Val Saviore— Lago d'Arno—Monte Castello—Val di Fum—Val Daone—Lago di Ledro—Riva—The Gorges of the Sarca—Val Rendena—Pinzolo— The Pra Fiori—Val d'Algone—Stenico—The High Road to Trent . 154 CHAPTER Vili. THE PRESANELLA AND VAL DI GENOVA. English and German Mountaineers—The Lombard Alps from Monte Rosa—Nomenclature—Gavia Pass—Ponte di Legno—Tonale Pass —Vermiglio—Val Presanella—The Presanella—Passo di Cercen— Val di Genova . 182 CHAPTER IX. THE ADAMELLO AND CAKE ALTO. A Tyrolese Porter

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PASSO DI MELLO. CO but the kitchen produced a sort of ' soupe maigre ' which sufficed, with the aid of our provisions, to ward oif starvation. Before us stretched a wide semicircle of rock and ice extending from the Muretto Pass on the north to the Monte della Disgrazia on the south. In the centre of the bay stood Monte Sissone. Above the glaciers which poured down valleywards in two principal streams, rose a continuous rock-rampart, impassable so far as we could judge to the right of Monte

Sissone, and formidable everywhere. The glacier difficulties we were not afraid of ; the question to be decided was whether this final wall could be scaled. At the point where the valley forks we left the Muretto path, and turned towards the west. A bright ice-stream, having its source under the highest crest of the Disgrazia, as splendid a mountain as any in the Swiss Alps, poured down to our feet. On our right the glacier from Monte Sissone stopped short at the top of a slope of loose rubbish

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in the Alps, reaching from Monte Viso to the Ankogel above Gastein. The summit is at times a great wave of snow overhanging the Forno Glacier ; care should be taken therefore ia approaching the edge. From the peak a perfectly easy route, first found by Lieutenant Payer, leads down into Val della Mare by the G h . degli Orsi. This glacier lies considerably to the E. of the peak, and on the southern side of the pass (Passo degli Orsi) at the extreme head of the Forno Glacier. Its icefall is turned

by the rocky slopes on the left; below this it is best to descend at once into the valley rather than to follow a tempting path leading along the hillside to the left, which comes to a sudden end in a wood. This route occupies nine hours, or only one more than the Passo dei Tre Signori. II. Santa Catarina to Rabbi by Monte Cevedale and the Vizzo della Venezia. From Santa -Catarina, Monte Cevedale may be ascended through Val Cedeh, in about six hours. To reach Rabbi, the following direc tions must

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84 MONTE DELLA DISGRAZIA. Soon after midnight Francois and I set out under a cloudy sky, whicli gave no sure token as to the day to follow. The now well-known path up Val di Hello was quickly traversed. As we reached La Rasica thin rain began to fall, and Fran§ois, prophesying evil, suggested a return to San Martino. But the first gleams of day showed the thinness of the clouds, and our faces were again set against the steep hillside which leads to the upper pasturages. Before these were

Kennedy, who apparently considered the gloominess of the surrounding names required some relief. The Monte della Disgrazia is supported on -the other side by the Monte della Cas sandra. 2 Judging from the map appended to Mr. Kennedy's paper in the first vol. of the Alpine Journal, he crossed the spur at a much lower point than we did.

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264 CIMA DI BRENTA. Devouassoud, a brother of the more celebrated Francois, in search of a route up the still maiden Cima di Brenta. Owing to various delays it was past five when we started. Our ideas as to the direction to be at first taken were rather crude, and had been rendered more so by the assurances of a German traveller we met overnight that there was no valley between the Val di Brenta and Monte Spinale. Close to a second inn, a peasants' drinking-house, we left the road to Pinzolo

for a terrace-path skirting the lower slopes of Monte Spinale. As we gradually turned the most projecting spur of the mountain, the lower portion of Val Nambino opened beneath us. The morn ing clouds were rapidly dispersing under the warm influence of the sun. High up in air, severed from the solid earth by a grey belt of yet undissolved mist, the great snow-plains of the Carè Alto shone in a golden glory such as that in which Mont Blanc veils himself when seen from a hundred miles' distance

. 1 Thin vapours still clung round the dolomites of the Bocca di Brenta, making their strange forms appear still more fantastic. Thus far our path had been gradually de scending. Now a valley opened exactly where we looked for it at the south-eastern base of Monte Spinale. A timber-slide, which, if in good repair, forms the most luxurious of mountain-paths, avoiding all inequalities of ground, bridging chasms and mounting by an almost uniform gradient, led us up the glen which is known 1 This view

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. EXCURSIONS FROM CAMPIGLIO. Guides. See Pinzolo. A forester can generally be found, and, except on snow or ice, these men are as a rule quite capable. Donkeys may be hired, and side-saddles are promised for 1875. Visitors will find it easy to add largely to the list given below. For moderate walkers. Monte Spinale, 3 hrs. easy walking. Monte Ritorto, a little longer. Vallesinella and tour of Monte Spinale—a beautiful walk. Vallesinella. Follow path to Cima Tosa (see ante), but instead of recrossing into

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INDEX, 383 Maloya Inn, 66 Mandron Glacier, 212, 227 Map, the Swiss, 24. Ziegler's, 119. Of Orteier, 369. Of Tyrol, 379- 380 Menaggio, 121 Mezzoldo, 368 Missionary Societies, 245 Molveno, Inn at, 273 Montagne Aiguebelette, 135 Monte Agnaro, 288 — Aralalta, 131 — Aviolo, 157 — Castellazzo, 283 — Castello, 166 — Cevedale, 369 — della Disgrazia, 84-88 — Folletto, 226 — Frerone, 166 — Gleno, 150-152 — Bedorta, 147 — Eosa, view from, 186 ' — Spinale, 264 — Sissone, 64-65 — Zembrasca, 117 Moroni

Cornelle, 294 — delle Malghette, 269 — del Mandron, 227 — di Bondo, 54, 73-75 — di Cavento, 226 — di Cercen, 203 — di Dosdè, 119 — di Ferro, 49-55 — di Foscagno, 109 — di Gornigo, 145-146 — di Grostè, 269 — di Mello, 68-72 — di Monte Campo, 165 — di Monte Sissone, 63-67 — di Redorta, 29-30 — di San Marco, 138 — di Travignolo, 297-305 — di Verva, 117 Pasturo. 128 Patocchi, Signor, 10 Payer, Lieutenant, 183, 203 Peccia, 13 Pejo, 260 Pelmo, 311. Ascent of, 314-321. A lady's ascent of, 322-324 Photographs

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MONTE ZEMBRASCA. 117 parent consented to dismiss him with his blessing and a huge baker's basket in which to stow away oar small stock of eatables. As it turned out, we were not tempted to break our promise, for grass and stone slopes lasted up to the gap we meant to cross. Four hours after leaving the village we had planted our ice-axes in the snow-crest of Monte Zembrasca, one of the highest summits of the range dividing Yal Livigno from Yal Viola. From this mountain, despite its moderate

Glacier, and further distant we recognised the sharp heads of the Teo and Sena, the former crowned by a stoneman of my own building. The whole mass of the Orteler group, from the long zigzags of the Stelvio road to the Gavia, was in sight. In the centre the black, stumpy point of Monte Confinale was con- spiouously thrown out against the white snows of the Forno Glacier. Below us lay the two Val Violas sepa rated by broad, rolling pasturages. The Swiss valley, or Val Viola Poschiavina, had just been

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THE BER G A MASQ UE VALLEYS. 367 Monte Vescova, mentioned in the 1 Alpine Guide' as leading from Forno di Zoldoio Agordo, would necessitate crossing three ridges, and passing through Val Pramperdi Zoldo, Val Pramper di Grisol, Val di Eossi, Val Crasa, and the valley of the Bordina, and it would be shorter to pass from the upper part of the latter into the valley of the Misiaga. M. Holzmann. Passo di Lavarede. Agordo to Longarone, by Val di Vescova. This is a low pass S. of Monte Vescova

of Monte Alben. Fine picture in compartments of Girolamo Santa Croce. Pane (Valle Seriana). Much extolled picture of G. B. Moroni. Cintone (Valle Seriana). On the outer walls of the Chapel of the Confra ternità, fresco representing the triumph of Death, recalling the celebrated Dance by Holbein ; the style is Tuscan (C. and C., vol. ii. p. 536).

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284 COSTONZELLA FASS. in a wide basin under the passes to San Martino and the Laghi di Colbricon, the other flowing out of a deep dell at the immediate base of the Pala and Yezzana, both peaks of 11,000 feet, and, next to the Marmolata, the highest summits of the dolomite country. The high-road, soon crossing the latter stream, winds in long, shady zigzags through the forest, and then reaches broad, sweet-scented pastures lying on the shoulder of Monte Castellazzo, and overhung by the thin

of distance, especially those going towards Primiero, will do well to abandon the high-road. Prom the hospice of Paneveggio a track mounts along the main branch of the Travignolo, and passing in succession before the precipices of the Fuoco- bono, the Vezzana, and the Pala, and leaving on the left the glacier which descends between the two latter peaks, crosses the back of Monte Castellazzo near the foot of the Pala, and rejoins the high-road. Lovers of Alpine tarns should cross it at right angles and

take a track which, starting from the highest chälet on the northern side of the carriage-pass, leads over the broken slopes of Monte Cavallazzo to the Laghi di Colbricon, two blue lakes framed by green fir-clad mounds, over which

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stream, and after a time begins to mount along the hillside towards the village of Piazzola. For the Baths it is best to follow a water course, and then run down into the level meadows which extend for a mile above the mineral source. This route is very direct, free from difficulty, and, though long, not too laborious, involving only one re-ascent of about 1,000 ft. The latter part of it is of course equally available for mountaineers cross ing from the Suldenthal to Rabbi, as Monte Cevedale can

be ascended from St. Gertrud in about the same time as from Santa Catarina. Our times were : ascent of Monte Cevedale, 6 hrs. ; to shoulder of Pizzo Venezia, 3 brs. ; to pass overlooking Val di Rabbi, 50 min. ; descent to Baths, 3 hrs. Total, 12 hrs. 50 min., without halts. APPENDIX D. THE CHURCHES OF VAL RENDENA. Br the kindness of Signori Marchetti and Meneguzzi, the President and Secretary of the Trentine Alpine Society, I am able to furnish the following copy of the inscription in San Stefano. They

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