The last bivouac of Messrs Donkin and Fox in the Caucasus

Christian Almer, Joseph Imboden, Jean Antoine Carrel, Alexander Burgener

The last steep bit near the top—At the end of a hot day—An instant’s halt to choose the best way up a steep wall of rock—The ice-axes are stowed away in a crack, to be brought up by the last man

Auguste Gentinetta—Auguste Gentinetta on the way to the Matterhorn—The beginning of the climb up the Matterhorn—The spot where was the bergschrund into which Mr Sloggett’s party fell

Auguste Gentinetta on a mountain-top—The ice-cliffs over which Mr Sloggett’s party would have fallen had they not been dashed into the bergschrund—The ruined chapel by the Schwarzsee—The last resting-place at Zermatt of some English climbers

On a snow ridge—A halt for lunch above the snow-line—Mrs Aubrey Le Blond

A cutting through an avalanche—The remains of an avalanche—An avalanche of stones—A mountain chapel

A mountain path—Peasants of the mountains—A village buried beneath an avalanche—Terraces planted to prevent avalanches

A typical Caucasian landscape

Melchior Anderegg, his son and grandchild

Crevasses and séracs—On the border of a crevasse—A snow bridge—Soft snow in the afternoon

The Bétemps Hut—Ski-ing—A fall on Skis—A great crevasse

The balloon “Stella” getting ready to start (p. 301)—A bivouac in the olden days—Boulder practice—The last rocks descending

Provisions for a mountain hotel—An outlook over rock and snow—Dent Blanche from Schwarzsee (winter)—Dent Blanche from Theodule Glacier (summer)

Hut on Col de Bértol—Ascending the Aiguilles Rouges—Summit of the Dent Blanche—Cornice on the Dent Blanche

Ambrose Supersax (p. 209)—View from the Rosetta

Climbing party leaving Zermatt—The Gandegg Hut—The Trift Hotel—Zinal Rothhorn from Trift Valley

Zinal Rothhorn—Top of a Chamonix Aiguille—A steep face of rock—“Leading strings”

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