Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-09-26
FERNS OF ADvEnTrsING.
Ascent OF Mont Blame by Albert Smith.
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THIS quiet Alpine valley has for the last week
been in a most unusual state of activity and ex-
element. About seven DAYS ago the pcople
learned that three students from the University
of Oxford, and an English author, were getting
themselves into condition for attempting the
ascent of Mont Blanc. Guides and villagers
were at once ON the qlu rirc, and the adventur-
Gus party were regarded with much interest
wherever they went. On Tuesday morning. at
seven O'clock all the preparations being complete
the party SC; out from the Hotel de Londres Ii
included Mr. Flovd said To he son of the gen.
eral OF that name, and cousin of Sir Robert Peel;
third OXiordman, and Mr. Albert Snith, with
sixteen guides sixteen porters, and number of
aspirants for the post OF guide, who attended the
voyagers Tor the purpose of learning the route to
the summit OF the mountain.
After their departure, telescopes were fixed
from the windows OF the inn, and in other places
to watch the progress Of the toilsome ascent, and
before six O'clock it was evident thot the voyag-
ers had crossed the great glacier, and had arri-
we'd at their resting place tor the night--on the
Gronds Nulets. Yesterday morning, os soon
as day light afforded clear view the advcntur-
ers were again visible BY aid of a good glass, and
by twelve o'clock were seen making the final
ascent. They rested on the summit for about
twenty minutes, and then commenced their de-
scent, arrived here last night about seven O'Clock.
The excitement during the previous twcnty-four
hours had been very great in Chamonix-anx-
Ious wives and parents, having husbands and
sens amongst the party up the shows, and the
interest being by 10 means diminished BY tie
fact that Sir Robert Peel (who had arrived hero
after the departure q his relative Tor the ascen)
invited nearly all the men remaining i'll the VIII
lagc, about sixty in number, to an entertainment
provided at an dt.b'rgc, where they were suppli-
ed with wine and otaer popular liquids, in which
10 drink 1.-THE health ct the Englishmen who
were sleeping on Mont Blanc.
This ceremony vas performed very zca!ously
and repeated III the most willing manner again
and again ill long after midnight When in the
evening the party from Mont Blanc approached
the village, nearly all the inhabitants assembled
10 meet them. Guns were fired in quick sue
cesson; the harps and tiddles of the valley we're
in rcQuisition, and sort of hall couical, half
tnumphal scene ensucd The travellers and
guides looked very laded and sun-scorched, and
had very biOoGshot eyes and rather dlapidatod
costumes, hut IN other respects seemed to be in
tolcraLle condition. This successful ascent by
four Englishmen turns the scale of numbers in
favor OF the English; the French tourists having
been hitherto accustomed to point with satistac-
ton to the fact that more Of their countrymen
than Of ours had succeeded in reaching the top
OF the King OF the Alps. The present forms tho
10th ascent-the first dating in 1887. The cost
as well As the labor aud danger Of these daring
excursions isvory great. The talk the village
declares that the ascent will cost tho party Of
four travellers fully ESQ