STEEP TRAILS 



could hardly be surpassed in sublimity and 

 grandeur; but one feels far from home so high 

 in the sky, so much so that one is incHned 

 to guess that, apart from the acquisition of 

 knowledge and the exhilaration of climbing, 

 more pleasure is to be found at the foot of 

 mountains than on their frozen tops. Doubly 

 happy, however, is the man to whom lofty 

 mountain-tops are within reach, for the hghts 

 that shine there illumine all that lies below. 



