Identifier: hoursofexercisei96tynd (find matches)
Title: Hours of exercise in the Alps.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Tyndall, John, 1820-1893
Subjects: Alps Descr. & trav Mountaineering
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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by me. More could not find room. The shape and size of the cavity were such as toproduce a kind of resonance, which rendered itdifficult to fix the precise spot from which thesound issued ; but the moaning continued, becomingto all appearance gradually feebler. Fearing towound the man, the ice-rubbish was cautiouslyrooted away; it rang curiously as it fell into theadjacent gloom. A layer two or three feet thickwas thus removed ; and finally, from the frozen mass,and so bloodless as to be almost as white as the sur-rounding snow, issued a single human hand. Thefingers moved. Round it we rooted, cleared the arm,and reached the knapsack, which we cut away. Wealso regained our rope*. The mans head was thenlaid bare, and my brandy-flask was immediately athis lips. He tried to speak, but his words jumbledthemselves to a dull moan. Bennens feelings gotthe better of him at intervals ; he wrought likea hero, but at times he needed guidance and sternadmonition. The arms once free, we passed the
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RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER. ,862) RESCUE FROM A CREVASSE. 149 rope underneath them, and tried to draw the manout. But the ice-fragments round him had regelatedso as to form a solid case. Thrice we essayed todraw him up, thrice we failed; he had literally tobe hewn out of the ice, and not until his last footwas extricated were we able to lift him. By pullinghim from above, and pushing him from below, theman was at length raised to the surface of the glacier.For an hour we had been in the crevasse in shirt-sleeves—the porter had been in it for two hours—and the dripping ice had drenched us. Bennen,moreover, had worked with the energy of madness,and now the reaction came. He shook as if hewould fall to pieces; but brandy and some drycovering revived him. The rescued man was help-less, unable to stand, unable to utter an articulatesentence. Bennen proposed to carry him down theglacier towards home. Had this been attempted,the man would certainly have died upon the ice.Bennen thought he co

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