Full text: From the Alps to the Andes

  
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SOME ALPINE ASCENTS 135 
After a few minutes” rest, we slowly con- 
tinued our ascént, cutting steps as we went 
and, with shouts of triumph, reached the 
Gnifetti Col at 2 p.m. All at once, we saw, at 
a short distance, two black specks on the ice. 
We stared at them and were about to see for 
ourselves what they might be, when some 
climbers, who were already at the hut—among 
whom were the Messrs. Sella—made signs to 
us not to proceed. What we had descried, 
| in fact, were the corpses of two unfortunate 
| men who had met with their death there, 
unknown to us all, 'a few days before; as 
the bodies had been found on Swiss territory, 
they were taken down to Zermatt the next 
day and there buried, nor did we ever find 
out the names of these ill-fated mountaineers. 
The next day, we made the descent. Bur- 
gener and I went to Alagna and thence to 
Macugnaga. Here we found Professor Carlo 
Rastelli of Bologna, who had several times 
expressed a wish to make an expedition to 
the Nord-End. Burgener and I were to 
act as his guides, and our departure was 
already arranged when it came on to rain. 
The weather cleared, however, in two days’ 
| time, so we set out at 5 a.m., and by 3.30 
| p.m. reached the Marinelli Hut. After par- 
  
 
	        
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