Word: crag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hacked and clambered upward His Imperial and Royal Highness was shown the sights. From yonder crag, it was pointed out, Lord Francis Douglas and three companions plunged to death while returning from the first ascent ever made to the "hump" (1865). Prince Chichibu, perhaps superstitious, resolved not to return as did Lord Francis Douglas. Daring, the Prince proceeded straight over the hump (the Italo-Swiss frontier) and prepared to descend by the far more dangerous Italian route, necessitating straight drops by means of Alpine ropes of several hundred feet...
...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...
Soul-weary with bricklaying, a swart, muscle-knotted Italian sought rest, detachment, beauty at the Hospice of St. Bernard, perched on a sheer crag above the green loveliness of Swiss Lugano...
Travelers recalled that "Sultan" El Atrash dwells like a feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture...
...stag on a Pamir crag while goiter'd gazelles stand...