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up and back, around a dome of ice so steep that it would be impossible 
to stand on it anywhere without having places cut for the feet, we sur- 
mounted the Signal Kuppe dome, and stood at the base of the peak of 
ing my alpenstock into the ice fora good hold, it seemed once to go 
through; and when I drew it up to see what was the matter, there was 
; ticular what sort of support our path had. The case, 
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and the other, and while it is banked out in a steep declivity to- 
the north, on the south it is built up straight above the pitous 
i e case in a of snow. 
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aie, mstein ted on the warm side of the en worked our 
on roe " seep see of fifty feet, and there found ourselves at the 
bottom of the Héchste Spitze. It is more steep than the Zumstein, but 
not as dangerous; for the path lies back two or three feet from the edge 
SF tae inte itil: tots When this crest was surmounted we stood on the 
