the; scribe; slopi; on the cor. du lautaret : French alps 



With the freezing and thawing of winter the mountain rock-decaying processes take 

 place, loosening up a vast amount of material which is very unstable, very treacherous, the 

 bane of mountam-climbers, and more dreaded than ice. It is gradually washed down to the 

 valleys and becomes a part of their soil. 



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