Transcriber’s Note

The illustrations have been placed between paragraphs in the electronic text. This may result in a changed page number in comparison to the List of Illustrations.

The following changes have been made to the text:

page 24, “fire” changed to “fir”
page 178, “Cormayeur” changed to “Courmayeur”
page 203, “regele” changed to “regale”, “Pernn” changed to “Perrn”
page 243, “naturrally” changed to “naturally”
page 269, opening quote added before “That”
page 294, “crritical” changed to “critical”
page 315, period added after “47-9”
page 319, period added after “Andermatten”
page 321, period added after “Taugwalder”

Variations in accentuation (“chalet”/“châlet”), hyphenation (e.g. “commonplace”/“common-place”, “midday”/“mid-day”) and spelling (“Ortler”/“Orteler”) have not been changed.