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Franconia Notch, New Hampshire: The lower open slope has 12 inches of packed powder snow. No skiing will be permitted on the trails but the rope tow will operate today and tomorrow...
...still to come. At Kardang Pass the travelers faced a 400-foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45° angle. They dismounted and crept on foot up a narrow path hacked in the ice. Donkeys and horses had to be helped up the treacherous slope. Gallant Vincoe had come close to the end of her tether. The caravan cook encouraged her, step by step: "Put this foot here, now that one there, now this one here...
...minimized drawing, he applied an oriental concept that he had learned from studying the woodcuts of the 19th Century Japanese artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai. To Van Gogh, as to the Japanese, line was more than a lasso for capturing shapes, it was a way of touching and riding the slope of a field, the thirsty arc of a sunflower, the surge of a mountain or the flamelike thrust of a cypress...
...holds barred, but the man who uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying rope for support is hold in disdain for the rest of his days. And you can't walk to a cliff by the back slope, you've got to scale the face. And you can't scale the face the easy way, you've got to climb the barest flattest, most unyielding wall in sight...
Rock-climbing is one side of mountaineering; the other side is ice-climbing. HMC members wear "crampons" with two-inch spikes when they're ice-climbing, and carry ice axes to chop zig-zag staircases in glaores. "Glissading" is their name for skiing down a slope without any exis; "glassading" is a similar procedure involving another part of the anatomy...