The Cliff Climbers
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Reid Mayne. The Cliff Climbers
Chapter One. The Himalayas
Chapter Two. A view from Chumulari
Chapter Three. The Plant-Hunter and his companions
Chapter Four. Home to the hut
Chapter Five. A midnight intruder
Chapter Six. A talk about elephants
Chapter Seven. Re-stocking the guns
Chapter Eight. Inspecting the cliffs
Chapter Nine. A reconnoissance interrupted
Chapter Ten. Ossaroo on the obelisk
Chapter Eleven. A wholesale tumble
Chapter Twelve. A ring performance
Chapter Thirteen. An odd appearance
Chapter Fourteen. A curious nest
Chapter Fifteen. The hornbill
Chapter Sixteen. A four-footed burglar
Chapter Seventeen. Fritz interferes
Chapter Eighteen “Death to the rogue.”
Chapter Nineteen. A home in ruins
Chapter Twenty. Up a tree again!
Chapter Twenty One. An implacable besieger
Chapter Twenty Two. Drawing their drink
Chapter Twenty Three. A gigantic syringe
Chapter Twenty Four. Swallowed wholesale
Chapter Twenty Five. The deodar
Chapter Twenty Six. The scaling ladders
Chapter Twenty Seven. An empty larder
Chapter Twenty Eight. Going abroad for breakfast
Chapter Twenty Nine. Caspar on a stalk
Chapter Thirty. The double decoy
Chapter Thirty One
Chapter Thirty Two. The ibex
Chapter Thirty Three. Goats and sheep
Chapter Thirty Four. A battle of bucks
Chapter Thirty Five. The Bearcoots
Chapter Thirty Six. A hope built upon the bearcoot
Chapter Thirty Seven. The log on the leg
Chapter Thirty Eight. Further experiments
Chapter Thirty Nine. The eagle’s escape
Chapter Forty. Fritz and the falcons
Chapter Forty One. Fritz offended
Chapter Forty Two. A Kite!
Chapter Forty Three. The paper-tree
Chapter Forty Four. Flying the kite
Chapter Forty Five. The rope-ladder
Chapter Forty Six. Ossaroo makes a quick descent
Chapter Forty Seven. The escape of the kite
Chapter Forty Eight. No more paper-trees!
Chapter Forty Nine. Aerostatics
Chapter Fifty. The skin balloon
Chapter Fifty One. Making ready for the ascent
Chapter Fifty Two. Inflation and failure
Chapter Fifty Three. Another spell of despair
Chapter Fifty Four. The bean of Pythagoras
Chapter Fifty Five. An aquatic harvest
Chapter Fifty Six. The adjutants
Chapter Fifty Seven
Chapter Fifty Eight. Fritz among the feathers
Chapter Fifty Nine. Capturing the storks
Chapter Sixty. A labelled leg
Chapter Sixty One. Mail-carriers on wings
Chapter Sixty Two. Conclusion
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Our scene lies in the very heart of the Himalayas – in that district of them least explored by English travellers, though not the most distant from the Anglo-Indian capital, Calcutta. Almost due north of this city, and in that portion of the Himalayan ranges embraced by the great bend of the Burrampooter, may be found the spot upon which our interest is to be fixed. Literally may it be termed a spot, when compared in superficies with the vast extent of wilderness that surrounds it – a wilderness of bleak, barren ridges, of glistening glaciers, of snow-clad summits, soaring one above another, or piled incongruously together like cumuli in the sky.
In the midst of this chaos of rock, ice, and snow, Chumulari raises his majestic summit, crowned and robed in white, as becomes his sacred character. Around are other forms, his acolytes and attendants, less in stature, but mighty mountains nevertheless, and, like him, wearing the vestment of everlasting purity.
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But how did they get into this valley, and how got they out of it? Of course, like yourself, they descended into it, and then ascended out again, by means of a rope-ladder.
That would be the explanation at which you would arrive; and it would be a satisfactory one, but for a circumstance that just now comes under your observation.
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