The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-02 00:00:00

AN ADVENTURE AMONG THE

MOUNTAINS.
On Tuesday week a foreigrer residing in Ambleside
bad a most miraculous escape from being dashed to atoms
while taking a mountain excursion with some friends.
lialt-a-ilez'a friends left Ambleside about noon, to take
a pedestrian excursion to Langdale, and, if possible, to
ascend the well-known pikes. When they came to the
foot of that precipitous mountain they partook of some
refr. shment at a farm house there ; and three of them,
thinking they would be unable to undertake the task,
returned- homeward; while the other three, after taking
directions from the people at the farm house, wended
their way up the leaser pike. From a misapprehension
of the length of the proposed journey, they had left
Ambleside, without dining, taking wily a few sand-
wich, s, and these, with milk and bread at the farm, was
all they had. The these continued their ascent for
about thr.-e.quarters ot an hour when one of them
(about 30 years of age). beginning to feel fatigued,
thought he would stop to rest himself, and await the
return of his friends. He sat down, and after contiau-
ing to enjoy the sc. ne ter some time, bathought himself
that the) might p ssibly have miscul,uleted their return,
and that if.the clouds which he saw touching the tops of
some ot the higher (Se 4 F,.11 and B .w Fell).
should come towards him, lie might have a ditfivulty
in finding his wa}, there being eo road or ftiotpaile
and he rind trusted to his friends t. r guidance, he being
a foreigner, and not understanding or beetling the di-
rectums given at the farm. He therefore began to re-
trace his steps. and after half-en-hour's walk in what
he thcueht the right direction, he was in error. In
the hope ot reaching the dale at the toot, he still con-
tinued his course; it became se eper and steeper, and
apparently would be snore daeu.t to retrace his steps
than proceed. He came suddenly to the brink of a
precipic which, as near as he could judge, seemed
to be tibuut thirty or forty yards high. He still
thou2,ht it might be possible to descend gradually by
the help of a tree growing out of the rock, and to
aid in his descent, he stripped, took off his shirt,
cut it up into shreds, which he ti. d together,
fastened to the tree, and after weighing the chances
of danger as to going down or up, he deliberately
chose the former, as the safer ot the two courses. and
hovered himself down to a ledge a good number of feet
below the edge! But eh. n there, he saw the impossibi-
lity of further progress either way. It was now about
sr von o'clock. the clouds w,-re descending on the moun-
tains, n.
tains, and his si;uation became most alarming.
wavingll
en-
deavoured to atir,ct attelitkll by shouting andhouse nor
his vest and handkerchief. though
person was -in sight. His strengthneit
gradually gave
excite-
under the exertion and long-continued
way
merit. His footing
Most pro-
from his situation, incapable of moving..
the vale
was as nothing, and he was,
After a long interval
below, and his signs observed.
vilentielly, his alarm had been heard in
ruing,at a great distance
unspeakable pleasure of o
of dread suspense, and dire foreboding, he had the
g heir way up a distant
htlow him, six figures
.I,p)- seem, d directed towards
him, and soon he became sure this, as he observed they
sh, ulder ot the 1011. Thewirenst(
of rope. One of the six
this turned out to be a large co.
carried something which he could not at first make out;
almost sinking wanderer,*
his fellows,
the
the rope round his body.
Ho aos
fastenedletd o
safety, and
up in
and he was immediately hoisted f
wnabnyend round
con-
ducted by his deliverers to the arm-house, where the
greatest than of a thr house")
was h "
aitention (" even as )
was paid
him by the good people there. He states that
matron of this hospitable
the good
tears when she saw him safe within their threshold.
After a short rest, and partakii gof ,cuch refreshment as
be could,
be got a cart to convey. him back to the place
of his depariure,--Preston chronicle,