they set off with few garments and some sketching materials by train to Sierre, where they take a diligence to Visp, staying at Le Soleil, where she had been with her sister in June, her preferred diet is tea or cafe au lait, not 'the sour wines' , butter, eggs and bread, or macaroni; up the Zermatt valley with three horses and three guides, who say 'some ladies are so frightened at this point they shed tears', mutton chops at hotel at St Niklaus when the guide make a sort of cart to continue to Zermatt, 'Oh! The loveliness of early morning among the mountains. The delicate colouring below the line of rosy light . . . ' , her companions struggle but she makes the summit at Gornergrat without difficulty, and looks at Monte Rosa and the Gorner Glacier, on the return she picks flowers 'some quite new to me', and makes drawings of them as quickly as possible, on the way back to Visp give some ladies their horses in exchange for mules, take a cabriolet fo Brig, engage an Italian coachman Pierre Chathin, to Andermatt and the Rhone glacier, 'Like all glaciers it is retreating fast & the sides are now quite bare', while carriage is repaired she sketches racks of drying corn, by rail to Glarus, where she visits a fabric printing house, to Zurich were Mr T leaves them for England.
This well-written and legible account of an excursion into the Alps was by an experienced and fit lady traveller, who had often visited Switzerland. (She had viewed the Matterhorn before it had been climbed). She is accompanied by a friend and a Mr T, who find themselves in high summer being ravaged by mosquitoes, while staying at Aigle. To escape the insects, they decide to go to the mountains, and after consulting maps and guides decide to head for Zermatt and the Gornergrat. This journey was made between 1868 and 1878, when the Simplon railway had reached Sierre, and before the line was extended to Brig.
they set off with few garments and some sketching materials by train to Sierre, where they take a diligence to Visp, staying at Le Soleil, where she had been with her sister in June, her preferred diet is tea or cafe au lait, not 'the sour wines' , butter, eggs and bread, or macaroni; up the Zermatt valley with three horses and three guides, who say 'some ladies are so frightened at this point they shed tears', mutton chops at hotel at St Niklaus when the guide make a sort of cart to continue to Zermatt, 'Oh! The loveliness of early morning among the mountains. The delicate colouring below the line of rosy light . . . ' , her companions struggle but she makes the summit at Gornergrat without difficulty, and looks at Monte Rosa and the Gorner Glacier, on the return she picks flowers 'some quite new to me', and makes drawings of them as quickly as possible, on the way back to Visp give some ladies their horses in exchange for mules, take a cabriolet fo Brig, engage an Italian coachman Pierre Chathin, to Andermatt and the Rhone glacier, 'Like all glaciers it is retreating fast & the sides are now quite bare', while carriage is repaired she sketches racks of drying corn, by rail to Glarus, where she visits a fabric printing house, to Zurich were Mr T leaves them for England.
This well-written and legible account of an excursion into the Alps was by an experienced and fit lady traveller, who had often visited Switzerland. (She had viewed the Matterhorn before it had been climbed). She is accompanied by a friend and a Mr T, who find themselves in high summer being ravaged by mosquitoes, while staying at Aigle. To escape the insects, they decide to go to the mountains, and after consulting maps and guides decide to head for Zermatt and the Gornergrat. This journey was made between 1868 and 1878, when the Simplon railway had reached Sierre, and before the line was extended to Brig.
| Binding | a little fraying at edges of leaves, |
| Publication | c. 1870. |
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