During this enjoyable period, Lawrence and Lewis made themselves better acquainted with Baptist Le Croix, the chamois-hunter, whose quiet, gentle, and unobtrusive manner was very attractive to them. Many an anecdote2 did he relate of adventures among the Alpine3 peaks and passes while pursuing the chamois, or guiding travellers on their way, and it is probable that he might have roamed in spirit among his beloved haunts—eagerly followed in spirit by the young men—if he had not been called to order by the guide, who, remembering the hard work that lay before them on the morrow, suggested repose4. The profound silence that soon reigned5 in the hut was broken only by an occasional long-drawn6 sigh. Even Captain Wopper was quiet, having been so powerfully influenced by fresh mountain air and exercise as to have forgotten or foregone his ordinary and inveterate8 snore.
There is something peculiarly disagreeable in being awakened10, when one is very tired and sleepy, about two minutes after one has dropped into a profound refreshing11 slumber12; and the annoyance13 is severely14 aggravated15 when it is caused by the wanton act of one of whom we had expected better things.
So, in a hazy16 way, thought Lewis Stoutley when he felt a hand laid on his shoulder, and heard the voice of Antoine Grennon.
“Monsieur! Monsieur!” said the guide.
“G–t—long. D–n borer me,” murmured Lewis, in tones so sleepy that the dash of crossness was barely perceptible.
“It is time to rise, sir,” persisted Antoine.
“’Mposs’ble—’v jus’ b’n two min’ts sl–e—”
A profound sigh formed an eloquent18 peroration19 to the sentence.
A loud laugh from his companions, who were already up and getting ready, did more than the guide’s powers of suasion to arouse the heavy sleeper20. He started to a sitting posture21, stared with imbecile surprise at the candle which dimly lighted the cabin, and yawned vociferously22.
“What a sleeper you are, Lewie!” said Lawrence, with a laugh, as, on his knees before the fire, he busied himself in preparing coffee for the party.
“And such a growler, too, when any one touches you,” observed Slingsby, buttoning on his leggings.
“Sleeper! growler!” groaned24 Lewis, “you’ve only given me five minutes in which to sleep or growl23.”
“Ah, the happy obliviousness25 of youth!” said the Professor, assisting one of the porters to strap26 up the scientific instruments, “you have been asleep four hours at least. It is now past one. We must start in less than an hour, so bestir yourself—and pray, Dr Lawrence, make haste with that coffee.”
The doctor was by no means slow in his operations, but the difficulties in his way delayed him. At such a height, and in such a frozen region, the only mode of procuring27 water was to place a panful of snow on the fire; and, no matter how full the pan might be stuffed with it, this snow, when melted, was reduced to only a very small quantity of water; more snow had, therefore, to be added and melted, so that much time was spent before the boiling point was reached. Patience, however, was at last rewarded with a steaming draught28, which, with bread and ham, did more than fire towards warming their chill bodies.
Outside, the scene was still exquisitely29 calm and beautiful. The stars appeared to have gathered fresh brilliancy and to have increased in number during the night. Those of them near the horizon, as the Professor pointed30 out, twinkled energetically, as if they had just risen, and, like Lewis, were sleepy, while those in the zenith shone with steady lustre31, as if particularly wide awake to the doings of the presumptuous32 men who were climbing so much nearer than usual to their habitation in the sky. One star in particular gleamed with a sheen that was pre-eminently glorious—now it was ruby33 red, now metallic34 blue, anon emerald green. Of course, no sunlight would tinge35 the horizon for several hours, but the bright moon, which had just risen, rolled floods of silver over the snowy wastes, rendering36 unnecessary the lantern which had been provided to illumine their upward path.
The party, having been tied together with a rope as on the previous day, set forth37 in line over the snow, each following the other, and soon they were doing battle with the deep crevasses38. The nature of the ice varied40, of course, with the form of the mountain, sometimes presenting rugged41 and difficult places, in which, as the Captain put it, they got among breakers and had to steer42 with caution, at other times presenting comparatively level plains of snow over which all was “plain sailing,” but the movement was upwards43—ever upwards—and, as the day advanced, felt so prolonged that, at last, as Slingsby said, the climbing motion grew into a confirmed habit. Meanwhile the old world sank steadily44 below them, and, seen from such an elevation45 in the pale moonlight, lost much of its familiar look.
Even sounds appeared gradually to die out of that mysterious region, for when they chanced to pause for a moment to recover breath, or to gaze downward, each appeared unwilling46 to break the excessive stillness, and all seemed to listen intently, as it were, to the soundlessness around—hearing nought47, however, save the beating of their own pulsations. In such a spot, if unaccompanied by guide or friend, one might perhaps realise, more than in other parts of earth, the significance of the phrase, “Alone with God.”
As dawn approached, Lewis, who had taken care to have himself placed next to Baptist Le Croix, renewed his converse48 in reference to chamois-hunting, and made arrangements to accompany the hunter on one of his expeditions.
“Is that your sole occupation?” he asked, as the party entered upon a somewhat level snow-field.
“That and assisting travellers,” answered Baptist.
“By the way,” said Lewis, in a careless tone, “they tell me that gold is to be found in some parts of these mountains. Is that true?”
If the youth’s back had not been towards the hunter, who walked behind him, he might have seen that this question was received with a startled look, and that a strange gleam shot from the man’s eyes. The question was repeated before he answered it.
“Yes,” said he, in a low voice, “they say it is to be found—but I have never found it.”
“Have you sought much for it?”
“I have sought for it.”
The answer was not given promptly49, and Lewis found, with some surprise, that the subject appeared to be distasteful to the hunter. He therefore dropped it and walked on in silence.
Walking at the time was comparatively easy, for a sharp frost had hardened the surface of the snow, and the gem-like lights of heaven enabled them to traverse valleys of ice, clamber up snow-slopes and cross crevasses without danger, except in one or two places, where the natural snow-bridges were frail50 and the chasms51 unusually wide.
At one of these crevasses they were brought to a complete standstill. It was too wide to be leaped, and no bridge was to be found. The movements of a glacier53 cause the continual shifting of its parts, so that, although rugged or smooth spots are always sure to be found at the same parts of the glacier each year, there is, nevertheless, annual variety in minute detail. Hence the most expert guides are sometimes puzzled as to routes.
The crevasse39 in question was a new one, and it was Antoine’s first ascent54 of Mont Blanc for that year, so that he had to explore for a passage just as if he had never been there before. The party turned to the left and marched along the edge of the chasm52 some distance, but no bridge could be found. The ice became more broken up, smaller crevasses intersected the large one, and at last a place was reached where the chaos55 of dislocation rendered further advance impossible.
“Lost your bearin’s, Antoine?” asked Captain Wopper.
“No; I have only got into difficulties,” replied the guide, with a quiet smile.
“Just so—breakers ahead. Well, I suppose you’ll ’bout ship an’ run along the coast till we find a channel.”
This was precisely56 what Antoine meant to do, and did, but it was not until more than an hour had been lost that a safe bridge was found. When they had crossed, the configuration57 of the ice forced them to adopt a route which they would willingly have avoided. A steep incline of snow rose on their right, on the heights above which loose ice-grags were poised58 as if on the point of falling. Indeed, two or three tracks were passed, down which, probably at no distant period, some of these avalanches59 had shot. It was nervous work passing under them. Even Antoine looked up at them with a grave, inquiring glance, and hastened his pace as much as was consistent with comfort and dignity.
Soon after this the sun began to rise, and the upper portions of the snow were irradiated with pink splendour, but to our travellers he had not yet risen, owing to the intervening peaks of the Aiguille du Midi. In the brightening light they emerged upon a plain named the Petit Plateau, which forms a reservoir for the avalanches of the Dôme du Gouté. Above them rose the mountain-crest in three grand masses, divided from each other by rents, which exposed that peculiar9 stratified form of the glacier caused by the annual bedding of the snow. From the heights, innumerable avalanches had descended62, strewing63 the spot where they stood with huge blocks of ice and masses of rock.
Threading their way through these impediments was a matter not only of time, but of difficulty, for in some parts the spaces between the boulders64 and blocks were hollow, and covered with thin crusts of snow, which gave way the instant a foot was set on them, plunging65 up to their waists the unfortunates who trod there, with a shock which usually called forth shouts of astonishment66 not unmingled with consternation68.
“Here, then, we draw near to the grand summit,” said the Professor, pointing to the snow-cliffs on the right, “whence originates the ice-fountain that supplies such mighty69 ice-rivers as the Glacier des Bossons and the Mer de Glace.”
“Oui, Monsieur,” replied Antoine, smiling, “we draw near, but we are not yet near.”
“We are nearer to the summit however, than we are to the plain,” retorted the Professor.
“Truly, yes,” assented70 the guide.
“I should think no one could doubt that,” observed Slingsby, looking upwards.
“It looks quite near now,” said Lewis.
“Not so near, however, as you think, and as you shall find,” rejoined the guide, as they resumed their upward march.
This was indeed true. Nothing is more deceptive71 to an inexperienced eye than the apparent distance of a high mountain-top. When you imagine that the plain below is miles and miles away, and the peak above close at hand, you find, perhaps, on consulting your watch, that the plain cannot be very far distant, and that the greater part of your work still lies before you. It requires no small amount of resolution to bear up against the depression of spirit caused by frequent mistakes in this matter.
Owing to the increasing height and power of the sun, the snow beyond the Petit Plateau soon became soft, and the steepness of the ascent increasing, their advance became slower, and their work much more laborious72. A pleasant break was, however, at hand, for, on reaching the Grand Plateau, they were cheered by the sun’s rays beaming directly on them, and by the information that they had at length reached their breakfast-point.
It may not be a very romantic, but it is an interesting fact, that the joys connected with intellectual and material food are intimately blended. Man, without intellectual food, becomes a “lower animal.” What intellectual man is without material food, even for part of a day, let those testify who have had the misfortune to go on a pic-nic, and discover that an essential element of diet had been forgotten. It is not merely that food is necessary to maintain our strength; were that so, a five minutes’ pause, or ten at the outside, would suffice, in Captain Wopper’s phraseology, to take in cargo73, or coal the human engine; but we “rejoice in food,” and we believe that none enjoy it so much as those whose intellectual appetite is strong. If any doubters of these truths had witnessed the Professor and his friends at breakfast that morning on the Grand Plateau, they must have infallibly been convinced.
“What a gourmand74 he is!” whispered Lewis to the Captain, in reference to the man of science, “and such a genial75 outflow of wit to correspond with his amazing indraught of wittles.”
The Captain’s teeth were at the moment fixed76 with almost tigerish ferocity in a chicken drumstick, but the humour and the amazing novelty—to say nothing of the truth—of Lewis’s remark made him remove the drumstick, and give vent1 to a roar of laughter that shook the very summit of Mont Blanc—at all events the Professor said it did, and he was a man who weighed his words and considered well his sentiments.
“Do not imagine that I exaggerate,” he said, as distinctly as was compatible with a very large mouthful of ham and bread, “sound is a motion of vibration77, not of translation. That delightfully78 sonorous79 laugh emitted by Captain Wopper (pass the wine, Slingsby—thanks) was an impulse or push delivered by his organs of respiration80 to the particles of air in immediate81 contact with his magnificent beard. The impulse thus given to the air was re-delivered or passed on, not as I pass the mutton to Dr Lawrence (whose plate is almost empty), but by each particle of air passing the impulse to its neighbour; thus creating an aerial wave, or multitude of waves, which rolled away into space. Those of the waves which rolled in the direction of Mont Blanc communicated their vibrations82 to the more solid atoms of the mountain, these passed the motion on to each other, of course with slight—inconceivably slight—but actual force, and thus the tremor83 passed entirely84 through the mountain, out on the other side, greatly diminished in power no doubt, and right on throughout space.—Hand me the bread, Lewis, and don’t sit grinning there like a Cheshire cat with tic-douloureux in its tail.”
At this Slingsby laughed and shook the mountain again, besides overturning a bottle of water, and upsetting the gravity of Antoine Grennon, who chanced to be looking at him; for the artist’s mouth, being large, and also queerly shaped, appeared to the guide somewhat ludicrous. Sympathy, like waves of sound, is easily transmitted. Thus, on the Captain making to Antoine the very simple remark that the “mootong was mannyfeek,” there was a general roar that ought to have brought Mont Blanc down about their ears. But it didn’t—it only shook him. Laughter and sympathy combined improve digestion85 and strengthen appetite. Thus the Professor’s brilliant coruscations, and the appreciative86 condition of his audience, created an enjoyment87 of that morning’s meal which was remembered with pleasure long after the event, and induced an excessive consumption of food, which called forth the remonstrances88 of the guide, who had to remind his uproarious flock that a portion must be reserved for the descent. To the propriety89 of this Lewis not only assented, but said that he meant to continue the ascent, and rose for that purpose, whereupon the Doctor said that he dissented90 entirely from the notion that bad puns increased the hilarity91 of a party, and the Captain, giving an impulse to the atmosphere with his respiratory organs, produced the sound “Avast!” and advised them to clap a stopper in their potato-traps.
Even at these sallies they all laughed—proving, among other things, that mountain air and exercise, combined with intellectual and physical food, are conducive92 to easy-going good humour.
It is not impossible that the tremors93 to which Mont Blanc had been subjected that morning had put him a little out of humour, for our mountaineers had scarcely recommenced their upward toil94 when he shrouded95 his summit in a few fleecy clouds. The guide shook his head at this.
“I fear the weather won’t hold,” he said.
“Won’t hold!” exclaimed the Captain, “why, it’s holdin’ now as hard as it can grip.”
“True,” observed the Professor; “but weather in these regions is apt to change its mood rather suddenly.”
“Yet there seems to me no sign of an unfavourable change,” said Lawrence, looking up at the blue and almost cloudless sky.
“Fleecy clouds are fleeting96 at times,” returned the Professor, pointing to the summit which again showed its cap of clear dazzling white, “but at other times they are indicative of conditions that tend to storm. However, we must push on and hope for the best.”
They did push on accordingly, and all, except the guide, had no difficulty in “hoping.” As they passed over the Plateau the sun poured floods of light on the snow, from the little crystals of which it shone with prismatic colours, as though the place had been strewn with diamonds. The spirit of levity97 was put to flight by this splendid spectacle, and the feelings of the travellers were deepened to solemnity when the guide pointed to a yawning crevasse into which, he said, three guides were hurled98 by an avalanche60 in the year 1820. He also related how, on one occasion, a party of eleven tourists perished, not far from where they then stood, during a terrible storm, and how an English lady and her guide were, at another time, lost in a neighbouring crevasse.
By this time all except the chief among the surrounding heights were beginning to look insignificant99 by comparison, and the country assumed a sort of rugged flatness in consequence of being looked down upon from such an elevation. Passing the Grand Plateau they reached a steep incline, which rose towards a tremendous ice-precipice. From the upper edge of this there hung gigantic icicles. Up the incline they went slowly, for the crust of the snow broke down at every step, and the Captain, being heavy, began to show symptoms of excessive heat and labouring breath, but he grew comparatively cool on coming to a snow-bridge which had to be passed in order to get over a crevasse.
“It’ll never bear my weight,” he said, looking doubtfully at the frail bridge, and at the blue gulf100, which appeared to be a bottomless pit.
Antoine, however, thought it might prove strong enough. He patted the snow gently, as on previous occasions of a similar kind, and advanced with caution, while his followers101 fixed their heels in the snow, and held tight to the rope to save him if he should break through. He passed in safety, and the others followed, but new difficulties awaited them on the other side. Just beyond this bridge they came to a slope from which the snow had been completely swept, leaving the surface of hard ice exposed. It was so steep that walking on it was impossible. Antoine, therefore, proceeded to cut steps along its face. Two swings of his ponderous102 mountain-axe were sufficient to cut each step in the brittle103 ice, and in a few minutes the whole party were on the slope, every man having a coil of the rope round his waist, while, with the spike104 of his alpenstock driven firmly into the ice, he steadied himself before taking each successive step.
There would have been no difficulty in crossing such a slope if its base had terminated in snow, but as it went straight down to the brow of an ice-precipice, and then abruptly105 terminated in a cornice, from which the giant icicles, before mentioned, hung down into an unfathomable abyss, each man knew that a false step, a slip, or the loss of balance, might result in the instant destruction of the whole party. They moved therefore very slowly, keeping their eyes steadily fixed on their feet.
The mercurial106 temperament107 of Mr Slingsby was severely tried at this point. His desire to look up and revel108 in the beauties of nature around him proved too strong a temptation. While gazing with feelings of awe109 at the terrible edge or cornice below he became, for the first time, fully7 alive to his situation,—the smallness of the step of ice on which he stood, the exceeding steepness of the glassy slope below, the dread110 abyss beyond! He shut his eyes; a giddy feeling came over him—a rush of horror.
“Take care, Monsieur!” was uttered in a quick, deep tone, behind him.
It was the warning voice of Le Croix, who observed his condition.
The warning came too late. Slingsby wavered, threw up his arms, slipped, and fell with an appalling111 shriek112.
Le Croix, however, was prepared. In an instant he had fixed his staff and heels firmly, and had leaned well back to resist the pull. The porter in front was not less prompt; the stout17 rope stood the strain; and in another moment the artist was restored to his position, panting, pale, and humbled113.
A few minutes sufficed to restore his confidence sufficiently114 to admit of his proceeding115, and, with many warnings to be more cautious, the advance was continued.
Up to this point the weather had favoured them, but now Mont Blanc seemed as if inclined to resent the free and easy way in which these men of mingled67 muscle and science had attacked his crown. He drew several ominous116 clouds around him, and shook out a flood of hoary117 locks from his white head, which, caught up by a blast, created apparently118 for the purpose, were whirled aloft in wild confusion, and swooped119 down upon the mountaineers with bitter emphasis, in the form of snow-drift, as if they had come direct from Captain Wopper’s favourite place of reference,—Nova Zembla. Coats, which had hitherto been carried on the arm or thrown open, were put on and buttoned, and heads were bent120 to meet the blast and repel121 the snow-drift. Little was said, save a murmured doubt by Antoine as to the possibility of gaining the summit, even although they were now so near it, for the day was far spent by that time, and the rugged nature of the route over they had passed, precluded122 the possibility of a rapid return to the hut at the Grands Mulets. They pushed steadily on, however, for the Professor was anxious to bury his thermometer in the snow at the top; the guide was anxious to maintain his credit for perseverance123; and the others were anxious to be able to say they had reached the highest height in Europe.
In any weather the ascent of Mont Blanc requires somewhat more than the average share of physical vigour124 and perseverance; in bad weather it demands unusual strength and resolution. When, therefore, a severe storm of wind arose, most of the party began to show symptoms of distress125. The labour of ascending126, being coupled with that of forcing way against the blast, was very exhausting to the muscles, while the extreme cold reduced the physical energy and cooled the most sanguine127 spirit. Antoine alone seemed to be proof against all influences, but the responsibility lying on him clouded his usually open countenance128 with a careworn129 expression. Prudence130 counselled immediate return. Ambition, as they were now so near the top, urged prolonged effort. The guide expressed his anxieties, but meeting with no response, followed the dictates131 of his feelings, and pushed on.
Like pillars of living snow they toiled132 patiently upwards. Breath became too precious to waste in words. They advanced in silence. The wind howled around them, and the snow circled in mad evolutions, as if the demon133 of wintry storms dwelt there, and meant to defend his citadel134 to the “bitter end.” There are two rocks near the summit, which crop through the ice like rugged jewels in the monarch’s diadem135. The lower is named the Petits Mulets, the upper the Derniers Roches. On reaching the latter of these they paused a few moments to rest. A feeling of certainty that the end would be gained now began to prevail, but the guide was a little alarmed, and the Professor horrified136, on looking at their companions’ faces, to observe that they were pinched, haggard, and old-looking, as if they all had aged137 somewhat during the last few hours! Captain Wopper’s rubicund138 visage was pale, and his nose blue; the face of Lewis was white all over, and drawn, as if he were suffering pain; Dr Lawrence’s countenance was yellow, and Slingsby’s was green. The Professor himself was as bad as his comrades, and the porters were no better.
“We shan’t be beaten now,” said the man of science, with a ghastly smile.
“Go ’head! nev’r s’die s’l’ng’s th’r’s shot ’n th’ locker139!” replied the Captain, in the tone of a man who would rather avoid speaking, if possible.
“What a face you’ve got, Stoutley!” said the artist.
“You’re another!” replied Lewis, with a horrible grin.
“Allons!” exclaimed the guide, bending once more against the storm.
Once, for a few minutes, the wind ceased and the clouds lifted. Captain Wopper uttered a cheer, and rushed forward in advance of the guide, took off his hat and threw it into the air. They had reached the round summit without being aware of it. They stood 15,781 feet above the sea-level! No envious140 peak rose above their heads. The whole world lay below them, bathed, too, in bright sunshine, for the storm, which had so suddenly swooped upon them, was confined, like an elemental body-guard, to the head of the mountain-king. But, clear though it was at the moment, they were too high in the air to see anything quite distinctly, yet this hazy aspect had a charm of its own, for it increased the feeling and idea of vastness in connection with surrounding space. Around, and now beneath, stood the mountain nobility of the land, looking, however, somewhat reduced in size and majesty141, as seen from the royal presence.
Scarcely had the mountaineers assembled and glanced at the wondrous142 panorama143, when the envious clouds swooped down again and mingled with the snow-drift which once more rose to meet them.
“We must be quick, Monsieur,” said Antoine, taking a shovel144 from one of the porters, while Le Croix grasped another. “Where shall we dig?”
The Professor fixed on a spot, and, while the grave of the thermometer was being dug, a plaid was set up on a couple of alpenstocks, in the shelter of which the others consumed the bread and wine that had been saved from breakfast. It did them little good, however; the cold was too intense. The Captain’s beard was already fringed with icicles, and the whiskers of those who had them were covered with hoar-frost, while the breath issued from their mouths like steam. Before the thermometer was buried all had risen, and were endeavouring to recover heat by rubbing their hands, beating their arms across their breasts, and stamping violently.
“Come,” said the Professor, quickly, when the work was done, “we must start at once.”
“Oui, Monsieur,” assented the guide, and, without more words, the whole party began to descend61 the mountain at a run.
There was cause for haste. Not only did the storm increase in violence, but evening drew on apace, and all of them were more or less exhausted145 by prolonged muscular exertion146 and exposure to severe cold.
Suddenly, having gone a considerable way down the mountain, they emerged from fog and snow-drift into blazing sunshine! The strife147 of elements was confined entirely to the summit. The inferior ice-slopes and the valleys far below were bathed in the golden glories of a magnificent sunset and, before they reached the huts at the Grands Mulets, they had passed from a condition of excessive cold to one of extreme heat, insomuch that the Captain and Professor were compelled to walk with their coats slung148 over their shoulders, while perspiration149 streamed from their bare brows.
That night the party slept again at the Grands Mulets, and next day they reached Chamouni, fagged, no doubt, and bearing marks of mountaineering in the shape of sun-burnt cheeks and peeled noses, but hearty150, nevertheless, and not a little elated with their success in having scaled the mighty sides and the hoary summit of Mont Blanc.
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