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Sierra Club Bulletin 



scending, casting transparent shadows on the ice and snow, now 

 rising high above them, lingering like loving angels guarding the 

 crystal gifts they had bestowed." 



The photographs, while not doing full justice to the great horizon 

 of peaks by any means, are presented because they represent a con- 

 siderable arc of what he thus described. These rocky giants of the 

 New World, wrapped in eternal snow and ice, send out their chal- 

 lenge to adventurous mountaineers and await an answer. 



Life consists with wildness, T^he most alive is 

 the wildest. Not yet subdued to man ^its pres- 

 ence refreshes him. One who pressed forward 

 incessantly and never rested from his labors^ 

 who grew fast and made infinite demands on 

 lifCyWould always find himself in a new country 

 or wilderness y and surrounded by the raw ma- 

 terial of life. He would be climbing over the 

 prostrate stems of primitive forest trees. 



HENRY D. THOREAU 



