Chapter IX. 



The 27tli was an even more successful day for Vittorio 

 Sella, who, acconipaiiicd l)v Ivoccati. Hi'st re-asceiuled Alexandra 



SAVOIA, KI.KNA AM» .MoKIUlS PEAKS, AM» MT. lA'IGI DI SAVOIA SKK.N FKoM 



iiiK s<iciir-KAST i:n>(;K or thk Alexandra teak. 



Peak, wliicli \\as tliiis clinilied foi- the fiftli time, then returned 



to the Stanley plateau, and with Brocherel and Botta crossed 



the col hetween Alexandra and Moel^ius Peaks, and went 



al)out l,o(H) feet down the hroken western o-lacier. From a 



rockv s])Ui- jii-ojectini;' i)etween the glaciers wliich descend from 



Moehius Peak and those ^^•hl('h descend from Alexandra Peak 



lie was ahle to take seveial photographs of the western slopes, 



thus getting a eoni])lete series of \i<Mvs of j\[t. Stanh^v from 



every side.* 



* The rockv spur Mt the foot of the western glaciers of Mt. Stanley, 

 Avliii li was clinil)C(l 1>y A'ittorio Sella, conies out (juite clearly in Stuhlinann's 

 plate, reproduced <;n p. I'OC). The photographs taki'ii by Yittoi'io Sella on 

 this occasion are those wliich have enabled us to identify with Mt. Stanley 

 the mountain represented in the above-mentioned plate. 



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