HOW TO GET KILLED IN THE ALPS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2138, 2 May 1914, Page 5

HOW TO GET KILLED IN THE ALPS

ADV'ICR TO nr.C,INKERS. -Mr. Frederick RiirliiißKn.ni lias first published in Loudon ii bpoii entitled "Jlow in Become an Alpist." In <?i>o of the ciisptoi.'s lie ivlls how to got killed in tine- Alps., ■ Last year 1 <>'•> tourists mid guides fioniebo'sv ffi'auajjKGl to b.roii.k tj'ieia. l nccks,' wlulo the number of wounded is quite beyond 6q;mpH'.t:c. A laseittating way of getting killed is to go .and pick edelweiss:

"To pluck it 0110 'must approach from above, Descnd slov:-ly, tliorqforp, cHng■iug to some «mnll shrub. If a passing guide clnuiccs to Gall warning, reply that you :l«ioiv what you are about, and that tourists as Well as guides liave a light- to pick Alpine Honors. . Loan slightly over tie precipice, a:td as one band grasps t'h.o alluring bloom, witli the otter hnmlpull o;> tiie shn;b,. which will come. loose roots and all.'*'

' ''.t'l.i.erii vilt be ,a grating soinid of loas'p luovifig rook, lb®- fl'vwbapgiiig ledge wi.il Arty© in. aiid mre luas soar, edelweiss iii barn}, ijito the vffid' below i' ? '

1 Eighty per c<?.ift<-. « :he AlpiY.i fatalities, air, Budiiigluim says, occur to .Mwis.ts i.hmbhig without guid»M. Hul another method is thus described:

"In ease of passing beneath a Foro'si; lira o'li n mouiitain sk'.d, stop and lin.vo a look at the thick yellow spirals of ascending fiuwkfe. In art amazingly short rime tiie root's of the trees burn, roicasiug the stones, lodged. between thorn, awl these falsing bombard tlio footpaths below. % wafefiiiig. tlio fi»o ftaro air exposed vantage' point, tho spec' a tor will be bit squarely ill the t'aus i.v a tfrofiij'-)i'o'j.uider, and. J;is body will bs recognised later by visiting cards, v.Oircli. by the way, every novice should carry ill his packet,'^ Still .another svii.v is not . to bother about heavy tond.erwe.aVj.. double piiiVf? o! sotfte, mittens, aitcL dark goggles. \v%»ii going above the biimviii'te. 'Ji i-Tre sit-ii shines one may go blind, and, there!ore, uiq.-fo easily fall oyer a precipice." Making n.-t) gtissad'-s >s mettled- - ado;:i id ji6ni.tttf.ui.es. according to Jff. Biuiiiuilvjui. even In e.\jx-rie.i!ccd. Alpinists ! ■ .... "Tito glissade si wis in situsttae in. fairly soft snow, but in passing swiftly from sunshine into shadow. wlicro the snow is free.i.ing, one, encounters an iay ■crust, and tiie-ro is n». -possibte svav of stopping- With one swoop one t'oes Willi he ntcikes tlio wall of it erevrtssA ■Or ticl-gsciiruiid, and it does not matter I" Persons a.ddHcd to heart, trouble afe. advised to undertake violent exertioil. anil Quiek eli.a'nses <»f ivtmffs'plifit'io yiydssure. II may nui; an end to ' i.heir tro.wMe.. For the sii'rae wasor. those wi'iloot. phvsienl force to resist- fai i-TUe and cold' woatl;e.r are fe'.d io undertake long climbs. "This is e. tiresome cud, beivrvcr, aufl t'ie'least A sirfible," -®flt lint ways one cin.i gei killed in tlio. „\lps n.ro leriou. ai.-.l most of them are as oiisy a.s hin.g.