Chapter IX. 
The 27th was an even more successful day for Vittorio 
Sella, who, accompanied by Boccati, first re-ascended Alexandra 
SAVOIA, ELENA AND MOEBIUS PEAKS, AND MX. LUIGI DI SAVOIA SEEN FROM 
THE SOUTH-EAST RIDGE OF THE ALEXANDRA PEAK. 
Peak, which was thus climbed for the fifth time, then returned 
to the Stanley plateau, and with Brocherel and Botta crossed 
the col between Alexandra and Moebius Peaks, and went 
about 1,300 feet down the broken western glacier. From a 
rocky spur projecting between the glaciers which descend from 
Moebius Peak and those which descend from Alexandra Peak 
lie was able to take several photographs of the western slopes, 
thus getting a complete series of views of Mt. Stanley from 
every side.* 
* The rocky spur at the foot of the western glaciers of Mt. Stanley, 
which was climbed by Vittorio Sella, comes out quite clearly in Stuhlmann’s 
plate, reproduced on p. 206. The photographs taken by Vittorio Sella on 
this occasion are those which have enabled us to identify with Mt. Stanley 
the mountain represented in the above-mentioned plate. 
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