Italian Alps : sketches in the mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia
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Autor:
Freshfield, Douglas William / by Douglas W. Freshfield
Ort:
London
Verlag:
Logmans
Umfang:
XVI, 385 S. : Ill., Kt.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort:
g.Italienische Alpen;f.Reisebericht ; <br>g.Trentino-Südtirol;f.Reisebericht
Signatur:
II 173.701
Intern-ID:
206418
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
