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[3] After the discipline of the Matterhorn, the fatal slope of the Col du Géant, which I visited a few days afterwards, looked less formidable than it otherwise might have done.
From Courmayeur I worked round to Chamouni by Chapieu and the Col de Bonhomme.
DISASTER ON THE COL DU GÉANT.
Hawkins and I were staying at Breuil, rumours reached us of a grievous disaster which had occurred on the Col du Géant.
It is alleged that when the party entered the summit of the col on the Chamouni side the guides proposed to return, but the Englishmen persisted in going forward.
One thing alone could justify the proposition thus ascribed to the guides by their friends-a fog so thick as to prevent them from striking the summit of the col at the proper point, and to compel them to pursue their own traces backwards.
The only part of the col hitherto regarded as dangerous had been passed, and, unless for the reason assumed, it would have been simply absurd to recross this portion instead of proceeding to Courmayeur.
The travellers, it is alleged, reached the summit of the col in a state of great exhaustion, and it is certain that such a state would deprive them of the caution and firmness of tread necessary in perilous places.
It, in all probability, caused the destruction of the unfortunate Russian traveller on the Findelen Glacier last year, and to it I believe is to be ascribed the disastrous issue of the slip on the Col du Géant.
The oilcloth would evidently slide down, carrying the boy along with it, as the[25] loose snow slid over the firm snow on the Col du Géant.
A precisely similar action ought to have been resorted to on the Col du Géant.
on Monday morning, August 20; and the short period for sleep thus left us was somewhat abridged in my own case, not so much by thoughts of the coming expedition, as by the news which had just reached us in a vague, but, unfortunately, only too credible form, of the terrible accident on the Col du Géant a few days before.
From the snow-line which crosses the glacier above the Faulberg a pure snow-field stretches upward to the Col de la Jungfrau, which unites the Maiden to the Monk.
We might do so on yonder col upon the snow, but there we should be almost frozen to death, and totally unfit for the work of the next day.
We were soon upon the Stein glacier, and after some time reached a col from[168] which we looked down upon the lower portion of the nobler and more instructive Trift glacier.
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