towers of living rock, that rise ten thousand feet into the blue sky. They looked unscalable, and yet the daring feet of bold alpinists have conquered them. I believe poor Michael Innerkofler had climbed them, although the honour of having first done so belongs not to him, but to one of his family, Francesco, who with another guide, Pietro Salcher, and a tourist, Grohmann, successfully made the ascent, on August 21, 1869. The Tre Cime form part of the 'scientific frontier ' between Italy and Austria