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Author:
Sinigaglia, Leone / by Leone Sinigaglia
Place:
London
Publisher:
Fisher Unwin
Physical description:
XXIII, 224 S. : Ill., Kt.
Notations:
Nebent.: Sinigaglia, Leone: Climbing in the Dolomites
Subject heading:
g.Dolomiten ; s.Klettern
Location mark:
III 148.670
Intern ID:
121780
44 CLIMBING IN THE DOLOMITES. Czernowitz, with Michel Innerkofler, made the ascent of the Croda. Thus the haughty peak, for so many years held to be impregnable, was sur mounted four times in about a month. The number of ascents then constantly increased. It is sufficient now to say that in this year (1893) they have reached a maximum of about thirty. So the Croda, if it still lacks nothing of its incontest able charm, lias lost a little of that halo of difficulty which for so many years
of making the ascent) ; and the well-known mountaineer, Madame J. I mminek, of Amsterdam, who must have a predi lection for the Croda da Lago, since she has ascended it several times, and had, moreover, the courage to attempt it (and with success), in spite of the intense cold and the ice-glazed rocks, on the 10th of December, 1891, under the guidance of Antonio and Pietro Dimai, an under taking that the guides declared to be the most