Squealer (Animal Farm) Squealer (Animal Farm) Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". He serves as second-in-command to Napoleon, the pigs' leader, and is the farm's minister of propaganda. He is described in the book to be an effective and very convincing orator. In the book, he is described as merely a fat pig, but in the 1954 film, he is a pink pig, whereas in the 1999 film, he is a Tamworth pig who wears a monocle. Throughout the novel Squealer is highly skilled at making speeches to the animals. He is also one of the leaders
Edward Whymper Pelvoux, the first of a series of expeditions that threw much light on the topography of an area at that time very imperfectly mapped. From the summit of Mont Pelvoux, Whymper discovered that it was overtopped by a neighbouring peak, subsequently named the Barre des Écrins, which, before the annexation of Savoy added Mont Blanc to the possessions of France, was the highest point in the French Alps. Whymper climbed the Barre des Écrins in 1864 with Horace Walker, A. W. Moore and guides Christian Almer senior and junior. The years 1861 to 1865 were filled with a number of