Chapter IX. 



Tlie 27tli Avas all even more successful ilay tor Vittorio 

 Sella, who, accoinnaiiied liy Roccati, first re-asceuded Alexandra 



SAVOIA, KI.K.NA AM) JloKllllS I'KAKS, AND JIT. l.UUa 1>1 SAAUIA SEEN FROM 

 THE SOUTH-EAST RIUOE OF THE ALEXANDRA PEAK. 



Peak, whicli was thus climhrd for the fifth time, then returned 



to the Stanley plateau, and witli Brocherel and Botta crcssed 



the col hetween Alexandra and Moeliius Peaks, and went 



ahout 1,300 feet down the hroken western glacier. From a 



i-ocky spur projecting between the glaciers which descend from 



Moebius Peak and those which descend from Alexandra Peak 



he Avas able to take several photographs of the Avestern slopes, 



thus getting a complete series of A'ieAA's of Mt. Stanley from 



every side.* 



* The rocky spur at the foot of the western glaciers of jNIt. Stanley, 

 which was climbeil 'ly \'ittoiio Selhi, conies out quite clearly in Stuhlmanii's 

 plate, reproduced on p. 206. The photographs taken liy Vittorio Sella on 

 this occasion are those which have enabled us to identify with ^It. Stanley 

 the nioiiiitaiu represented in the above-mentioned plate. 



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