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Title: Southern France, including Corsica: handbook for travellers
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker, London :b
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t.)and de Blaitiere (11,550 ft). From the Montanvert travellers usually cross the Mer de Glace tothe (ilU hr.) Chapeau, opposite. A path descends the left lateralmoraine to (10 min.) the glacier. The passage of the glacier (^hr.)guide, unnecessary for the experienced, 3 fr., to the Chapeau 6 fr.)presents no difficulty. On the opposite side we ascend over debristo the (5 min.) top of the right lateral moraine (6Q65 ft.; rfmts.),skirting which we then descend by a narrow path along the MauvailPas, where the path is hewn in steps and flanked with iron rodsattached to the rocks, to the (40 min.) Chapeau. The *Chapeau (5279 ft.; Inn), a projecting rock on the N.E.side of the Glacier des Bois, at the base of the Aiguille a, Bochard,is considerably lower than the Montanvert, but commands an ex-cellent survey of the ice-fall of the Glacier des Bois and the Cha-monix Valley. In the background, Mont Mallet (13,084 ft.) and theAiguille du Geant (13,170 ft.); to the right, the Aiguilles des Char-
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Ftegere. CHAMONIX. VI. Route 45. 297 moz (11,293 ft.), de Blaitiere (11,550 ft), du Plan (12,050ft), anddu Midi (12,608 ft.), the Bosses du Dromadaire (14,950 ft), theDome du Gouter (14,210 ft), and the Aig. du Gouter (12,610 ft). A bridle-path descends the moraine from theChapeau, andleads through pine-wood to (40 min.) the Hotel Beau-Sejour (p. 307).Here it divides: to the right to (10 min.) Lavancher, to the left to(20 min.) Les Tines (p. 307). — Another path, i/4 hr. shorter hutrather rough, diverges to the left about 20 min. from the Ohapeau,and descends by the moraine, passing the Source of the Arveyronbelow to the left, to Les Bois and (40 min.) Les Praz (p. 307). The *Jardin (9830 ft.; guide necessary, 12 fr.) is a triangular rock risingfrom the midst of the Glacier de Tali/re, and walled in by moraines.Around a spring in the midst of this oasis Alpine flowers bloom in August.From the Montanvert, where the night is passed, we skirt the somewhatdizzy rocks of Les Ponts to the

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