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1894
Dolomite strongholds : the last untrodden alpine peaks ; an account of ascents of the Croda di Lago, the little and great Zinnen, the Cinque Torri, the Fünffingerspitze, and the Langkofel
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Page 49 of 187
Author: Davies, J. Sanger / by J. Sanger Davies
Place: London [u.a.]
Publisher: Bell
Physical description: XII, 176 S. : Ill., Kt.
Language: Englisch
Subject heading: g.Dolomiten ; s.Bergwandern ; f.Führer
Location mark: II 179.912
Intern ID: 227780
To the Drei Zinnen . 37 on the east, those, I believe of the Zwolferkofel. . Six or eight successive echoes were distinctly heard. Resuming our scramble the Hiitte on the Sextner Platte was reached well before sunset. The erection and maintenance of these sleeping-places on the mountains is entirely the contribution of the Continental Alpine clubs to mountaineering. The members of these clubs need not climb a foot above the floor of their hotel bedroom to be qualified for membership, but there

is a money payment, which secures to the payee the pres tige of the club towards limiting his hotel charges, and enough is collected to build and •repair the shelters for those who do climb ; and we owe them a debt of gratitude for this service. Of course these clubs reckon their members by thousands, almost every travelling German being able to write the mystic letters after his name in the visitor’s book . 1 Although there are climbers —German, Italian, and French—equal to any in Britain or Greater

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