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Identifier: skirunsinhighalp00roge (find matches)
Title: Ski-runs in the high Alps
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Roget, François Frédéric, 1859-
Subjects: Skis and skiing Mountaineering
Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nes. The deadly weaponsbegan gliding about. The brothers Marti were proofagainst them, being involuntary offenders. Thehead of the party could not be struck, being of thesceptical kind. The young Englishman jumpedabout, being ever safe in the air when the glidingmissile came his way. But the member of theAlpine Club suffered the fate all were courting. Hisfibula was snapped. Then nothing was seen but a man lying down inpain upon a beautifully white snow-field. The evilspot was clad in the garb of innocence. The skyspread above in a blue vaulted canopy, such asMadonnas are pictured against. One of the pooroffending mortals lay low, expiating the fault of all.Would the sacrifice be accepted ? Yes. Amid the scene of temple-like beauty,charity—it might have been the Madonna or asimple Ice Maid—appeared in human shape amidthe effulgence of midday, in the opportune costumeof a hospital nurse. With such help, the moment to be absolutely prac-tical came. It was two oclock in the afternoon
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WITH SKI TO THE DIABLERETS 43 We were still on the glacier as high as we could be.Whether we retraced our footsteps or glided on, thedistance was the same to Gsteig, where the Pillon andSanetsch passes join together. Luckily the weatherwas fine, the air quite warm and still. I despatchedVictor Marti, the better runner of the two, down theSanetsch to Gsteig. His orders were to summonby telegraph a medical man from Gstaad to Gsteig,with instructions there to await our arrival, and tocome provided with splints for the crippled man. This young winged Mercury received anothermessage to convey. It was to send forthwith ateam of four men to the top of the Sanetsch pass.He himself was to bring back to the pass eatables,drinkables, and blankets. It was, indeed, impossibleto tell whether we should not be kept out in thewilderness the whole night. In such places at thattime of the year, the wind, in rising, might beattended by the worst consequences to human life. We had before us many, many mil

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