ski-ing as a means of locomotion, enabling them to go to places
otherwise inaccessible, to pass swiftly and lightly over snow in
which unskied bipeds would flounder up to the knees, if not over the
head. What matters it to the humble novice that his course seem but
shambling and shuffling to the winner of cups and breaker of records.
What is that to him as he brushes over the sparkling slopes and
threads the cloistral hills? He will find himself on shining
plateaux bathed in hazy light and walled in the shimmering distance
with ethereal ramparts. He will pass into solemn depths of forest
where the winding way is edged and arched with pines that stretch on
either hand into illimitable aisles. Sometimes his path will lead
him to a radiant sanctuary where Nature seems taking her winter rest
in undisturbed repose; no breath of wind breaks the stillness, nor
note of bird, nor human footfall; the earth as he ascends is
transfigured with new and strange magnificence, the heaven deepens to
a diviner blue and the shadows to {61} more mystic purple, the peaks
close round and rise cathedral-like on every side: a cathedral vast
and soaring, vaulted with unfathomable sky, piled and pinnacled,
sculptured and wrought, beyond any architect's imagining, and clothed
with light as with a garment.
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INDEX
Agnas, Las, 33
Aguagliouls, 30
Albriz, Piz, 12
Albula, Pass, 10
Alv, Lej, 31
Piz, 30
Anglican Church, 16, 25
Architecture, 21
Ardez, 40
Assa, Val d', 44
Badrutt Park, 14
Bears, 49
Bernina Falls, 30
Hospice, 31
Houses, 31
Pass, 31
Val, 12, 20, 27-32
Bevers, 11
Val, 11
Bishopric of Chur, 42, 43
Bitabergo, Lago di, 25
Bregaglia, Val, 26
Brunies, Stefan, 52
Calven, 33
Campell, 15
Camfer, 17
Capella, 36
Capricorn, 50
Cavloccio, Lago di, 25
Celerina, 12
Chalchaign, 12
Chamois, 50
Charnadura Gorge, 12
Chastè, 23
Chesa Gregori-Gilli, 34
Juvalta, 35
Planta, 34
Chiesa, 22
Chur, 10
Cluoza blockhouse, 53
Val, 45, 49, 50
Cresta, 12
Crusch, 42
'Diavolezza Tour,' 31
Deer, 50
Electricity, 18
Eren, Piz, 11, 50
Eschia, Val, 34
Etruscan villages, 40
Evolution, 55
Fedoz, 22, 24
Fex, Val, 22, 24
Finstermünz Pass, 45
Flaz, 12
Fontana Merla, 33
Ftan, 40
Fuorcla, Surlej, 20
Gian, San, 12
Giarsun, 28
Godgod, 51
Guarda, 40
Guardaval, 34
Güerg, St., 36
Hartmann, Nichol, 13, 15, 21
Heimatschutz, 13, 36, 52
Horace, 9, 10
Huxley, 24
Ibex, 50
Inn River, 12, 17, 20, 25, 37-39, 44
Islas, Las, 35
Isola, 24
Julier Pass, 19
Piz, 20
Jurada Forest, 53
Juvalta, Anna, 35
Kesch, Piz, 34
Lagalb, Piz, 30
Lakes, 17, 27, 33
Language, 9, 10, 35
Lauguard, Piz, 29
Laret, 28
Lavin, 40
Linard, Piz, 39
Lunghino Lake, 25
Piz, 26
Madulein, 33
Maira, 26
Malenco, Val, 22
Maloja, 24
Margna, Hôtel, St. Moritz, 13
Sils Baselgia, 21
Marmorè, 23
Marmots, 50
Marozzo, Val, 26
Martina, Punt, 44
Martinsbruck, 44
Moritz, St., 4
Bad, 15
Dorf, 13
Morteratsch Glacier, 29, 30, 32
Muotlas Muraigl, 29
Muraigl, Punt, 29
Museum Engiadinais, 15
Nair, Lej, 30
National Park, 11, 39, 45
Nietzsche, 23
Ordlegna, 25
Ot Piz, 39
Otter, 53
Padella, Piz, 12
Palü, Piz, 12
Pers, Glacier, 31
Planta, 33, 34
Ponte, 33
Pontresina, 12, 28, 32
Poschiavo, Lago di, 31
Punt Ota, 37
Ramuosch, 43
Raphael, 14
Roman Conquest, 9
Rosegg, Glacier, 29
Samaden, 11, 12
S-chanf, 35
Schaffberg, 29
S-charl, 54
Schlucht Promenade, 28
Segantini, 14, 29
Sent, 42
Sgrischus, Lej, 23
Sils Baselgia, 21
Maria, 12
Silvaplana, 9, 18
Sinestra, Val, 42
Sinuos-chel, 37
Skis, 59
Sondrio, 22
Spiert, 22
Spinas, 40, 42
Springs, 40, 42
Strada, 44
Sur-en, 42
Surlej, Fuorcla, 20
Susch, 39
Tarasp, 42, 55
Trout, 20, 23, 53
Tschanuf, 42
Tschlin, 44
Tuoi, Val, 40
Val d' Assa, 44
Bermina, 12, 20, 27
Bevers, 15
Bregaglia, 26
Val Cluoza, 45, 49, 50, 53
Eschia, 32
Fex, 22, 24
Malenco, 22
Marozzo, 26
Sinestra, 42
Tuoi, 40
Valtelline, 22
Vulpera, 41
Watershed of Alps, 26
Winter, 36, 57-61
Zernez, 38, 39
Zuoz, 33, 34, 36
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