The Seamy Side
EFORE you take up your knife and | fork to feast upon these dainties, here are some of the bitter ingredients which you may have to swallow. Your chief enemies are rain, wind, and fog, often delightfully combined with snow in a blizzard. Even in the height of
summer you are never quite safe from these risks. The fine life of the open spaces, over which armchair song-writers wax so enthusiastic, poor fish!, loses all its charm in heavy rain, and, especially the Western side of
the Alps, the summer is usually pretty wet. I have lost, on one occasion five, and on others two or three days out of my life, ‘sitting in a hut or tent waiting for the torrential rain to stop. Rivers are in flood and cannot be crossed, so you have to wait. A boring job indeed. Then, even when it is dry, the famous nor’-wester of the Eastern Alps may be a nasty foe. Not only does it knock you flat by sheer force and make progress very difficult, but its bullying, blustering, roaring attack spoils the proverbial peace of the mountain scene altogether. And it is, in the average season, the normal summer weather, so that you are lucky if you escape it("The Southern Alps from End to E: Professor Arnold Wall, 1YA, April 16).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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224The Seamy Side New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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