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.• ■ A Stone Avaianche;— <lf While he stood pondering here, a deep arid confused roar attracted our attention. :• Frdia ia'ip6lnt near the summit of the t Weissborn, a rock had been • discharged >, it plunged dpv?pi a dxy; <?OR]piy,^ising a doud ,ot dust: at. each, bump against the mountain.; A hundred similar ones were immediately in motion, while Jthe Bpaces between the larger" masses were filled by the Innumerable flight of small; etone&vS Each of them shakes its quantum of dust in the air, until finally-the ftvalauche ; Is envelop io a'Taitolotid. The blatter of this devfrs cavalry wasstunning. t|3lack incases of rock emerged here and t!»erefrpn\t^ cloud, ana sped through the air like flying AeWfc"*Their? motion was:not one of translation merely, but they-whizzed and .vibrated in their flight as if urged by wings. The clang of echoes resounded from aide to'.side, from, the Schauenberg to I the Weisshorn and back, until finally the whole troop came to rest, after many a deep-sounding thud, in the Bnow, at -the -bottom of- the mountain This stone ■ avalanche was one ot the roost extraordinary tilings I had ever witnessed; and in connection with it, I would draw the attention of future climbers to the danger which would infallibly beset «ny attempt to 1 ascend the Weisshorn from this side, except by oneoofl f its aretes. * At any moment the mountain side may be raked by a fire as deadly as that of cannon."— Mountaineering pt 1861.'" .-*•*■*•
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 232, 17 September 1862, Page 4
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