A Guide to the Western Alps

Aiguille Albertville Allevard Alpine Alps Annecy Aosta ascent bank Bérarde Bonneval Bourg d'Oisans Bourg St Briançon bridge called chain châlets Chambéry Chamouni char-road Chartreuse Châtelard Cogne Combe commands couloir Courmayeur crevasses crosses crystalline Dauphiné Dauphiné Alps débris Dent descends difficult direct distance district Doron excursion farther glacier glen gorge Graian Alps Grand Grenoble hamlet head height highest Inns Isère junction La Thuile lake lies lying mass Mathews miles Mont Blanc Mont Cenis Monte Rosa Monte Viso moraine moun mountain mounts Moutiers mule-path nearly névé opposite pass pastures path leads peak pedestrian Pelvoux Pierre plateau Pont range reached Rhone ridge road rocks Romanche route Saas Savoy scenery seen side Sixt slopes snow snow-slopes steep stream summit Tarentaise thence Tignes torrent Tour track traveller traversed Turin upper valley Vallon Vallouise village walk whence Zermatt