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TRAGEDIES IN THE ALPS.
The Victims Are Mostly Venturesome
Persons Who Go Too Par
Without Guides.
The time has long since passed when
the successive climbing seasons were
distinguished by new' first ascents of in
terest and importance. From that lim
ited point of view the sport lost most of
! its excitement at the end of the great
campaigns against the Aiguilles of the
Mont Blanc group; and now, when the
I rare news of yet another first ascent does
reach us, only those whose knowledge
of Alpine topography is minute have
ever heard the name of the conquered
summit. Nowadays, in fact, states the
London Field, the principal features
which distingush the climbing season
j from another are the quality of the
| weather and the number and nature of
the accidents.
; Whether the season now closing, if not
closed, will, like the seasons of 1901 an <9
1900, establish a new' record In the mat
ter of accidents is a question that can
not be confidently answered until the
: various Alpine clubs publish the statis
tics which they so carefully compile;
but, as far as the weather is concerned,
no climber, in whatever center he may
have climbed, is likely to wish to reserve
his judgment. Those must have very
long memories indeed, who do1 not pro
nounce the summer the worst that they
| have ever known. Execrable weather in
June was followed by execrable weath
i er in July. Just at the end of July things
began to look a little more promising.
A first ascent was then made of the
last remaining virgin summit in the
Lauterbrunnen valley; the club huts
were as overcrowded as the Engadine
hotel, and some remarkable traverses,
including: one of the Weisshorn. were
accomplished. But the clouds reformed,
and those who lingered, hoping for a
fine August, were disappointed. A fort
night’s fine weather in three months was
one climber’s estimate of the season
which ha had endured from beginning
to end; and it might be difficult to fine
anyone who could boast that his ex
perience had been more fortunate. The
climbing season, from that pointof view,
was like the London season or the sea
son at any of the watering places.
Concerning the accidents of the season
It is, as has been said, a little difficult to
I generalize until the actual figures are
presented; but one generalization is pos
sible. The accidents to serious moun
taineers, engaged upon serious expedi
tions, were relatively few, while the ac
cidents which, being the direct result of
! ignorance or carelessness, ought really
to be called by some other name, were
comparatively numerous.
The worst of all the real climbing ac
cidents of the season did not happen in
the Alps, but on Scawfell Pinnacle. In
I part, this distribution of the casualities
is, no doubt, to be attributed to the
weather. There were fewer accidents
than usual belonging to the former class,
simply because there was less climbing.
In part, however, it may be taken to
represent a tendency that is likely to be
come permanent.
The early climbers were pioneers who
had to learn the dangers of mountaineer
ing by experience. The modern climber
can start with a full knowledge of them
acquired by the experience of others. He
knows—or at any rate he may hire
guides who know—where avalanches
habitually fall, at what hours of the
day certain gullies are likely to be raked
by falling stones, under what conditions
snow slopes can be safely traversed, and
many other things upon the knowledge
of which the safety of the party depends.
Such an accident, for example, as hap
pened to Prof. Tyndall, when he started
an avalanche on the Piz Morteratsch, or
to Mr. Gossett, when he did the same
thing on the Haut de Cry, would be
most unlikely to occur to any modern
party with a guide skilled in snow craft;
and this science of snow craft, transmit
ted from one generation of climbers to
the next, cannot fail to diminish the per
centage of catastrophes among moun
taineers who know their business.
The danger for them begins when, out
of bravado, they knowingly take unwar
t a a o 1/ c* o ft a *» fnahinn t V, A
late A. F. Mummery, or the party that
fell from the Dent Blanche, in such
tragic circumstances, a few seasons ago
The accidents of the other class, how
; ever, are more likely to increase than to
diminish in number as the years go on,
if only because the increasing facilities
of continental travel bring so many en
ergetic but intxperlenced persons with
in reach of the high and steep and dan
gerous places. They want to be climbers
witlj#tit serving their apprenticeship to
the craft, they insist upon undertaking
; tasks beyond their strength or they simp
ly' walk carelessly in steep places, and
Bo faii, because it has not occurred to
them that ii is necessary to be careful.
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