• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 28 pages

The Fortieth French Ascent Of Mont Blanc is a short story by Paul Verne, the adventurous younger brother of notable author Jules Verne. - AsNotedIn

I arrived at Chamonix on the 18th of August, 1871, fully decided to make the ascent of Mont Blanc, cost what it might. My first attempt in August, 1869, was not successful. Bad weather had prevented me from mounting beyond the Grands-Mulets. This time circumstances seemed scarcely more favourable, for the weather, which had promised to be fine on the morning of the 18th, suddenly changed towards noon.Paul Verne, The Fortieth French Ascent Of Mont Blanc

Places

• Aiguille du Midi, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes We had then to go up a very narrow zigzag path, which follows the edge of the Bossons glacier, and along the base of the Aiguille-du-Midi.
• Bossons Glacier, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes The Bossons glacier, in all its splendour, bristled with icy needles and blocks (blocks sometimes ten yards square), which seemed, like the waves of an angry sea, to beat against the sides of the rocks of the Grands-Mulets, ....
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• Mont Blanc, France