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Climbing Most Blane

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is an expensive a well as a very tiresome undertaking to ascend Mont Blane. It costs at least $50 per person, for by the law of the Commune of Chamouni each 8tranger ís obliged to have two guides and a porter. So far as the danger is concerned, it is now reduced to a minimum, but almost ívery year the mountain claims a v-ictim. Bad weather is the chief thing feared by the guides, and so swiftly loes it come that a cloudless sky may in ñfteen minutes turn to a blinding now-storm which beats you to the ground. Thus it was that some years igo a party of eleven persons perished. Five were found frozen stift in the raow; the other six still lie buried in the Glacier des Boissons. Forty years es the time allowed for the glacier to ield them up in tie valley below.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register