¬A¬ Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites : [untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys]
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Autor:
Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford / by Amelia B. Edwards
Ort:
London
Verlag:
Routledge
Umfang:
XXIV, 389 S. : Ill., Kt.. - 2. ed.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort:
g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1872
Signatur:
II 98.318
Intern-ID:
171127
from its resemblance to a row of broken teeth in a jaw- bone of rock, connects the Schiern with the North end of the Rosengarten ränge, as well as with the South ern extremity of the Seisser Alp, and with the ridge out of which rise the Platt Kofel and Lang Kofel. But the Rosengarten is quite hidden in the mists that keep flying up with the wind from the side of Botzen. The Lang Kofel, however, Stern and solitary, with a sculptured festoon of glacier suspended above a deep eieft in the midst
and then the curtain is lifted for a moment towards the West, re- vealing brief glimpses of wooded hills and gleaming valleys bounded by far mountain-ranges, blue, tender, and dream-like, as if outlined upon the sunny air. * Ball gives the Lang Kofel a height of 10,392 feet, and the Platt Kofel, 9,702 feet. The latter he reports as “easily aceessible from Seiss, or more conveniently from Santa Christina in the Grödner Thal.” The Lang Kofel ■was ascended for the first time by Dr. Grohmann in 1869