A Guide to the Western Alps

Aiguille Albertville Allevard Alpine Alps Annecy Aosta Arve ascent bank Bourg St Briançon bridge called châlets Chambéry Chamouni char-road Chartreuse Châtelard Cogne Combe commands couloir Courmayeur crevasses crosses Dauphiné débris Dent descends difficulty direct distance district Dranse Evolena exclusive of halts excursion farther Ferrex Geneva glacier glen gorge Graian Alps Grand Grenoble hamlet head height high-road highest Inns Isère joins junction La Thuile lake lies lying Martigny Mathews miles Mont Blanc Monte Rosa Monte Viso moraine moun mountain mounts Moutiers mule-path mules nearly névé Noire opposite pass pastures path leads peak pedestrian Pelvoux Pierre plateau Pont reached Rhone ridge road rocks Romanche Route Samoëns Savoy scenery seen Servoz side Sixt slope snow snow-slopes steep stream Stura summit thence Tignes torrent track traveller traversed Tuckett upper Val de Bagnes valley Vallouise village walk whence Zermatt