Show ascension of the peak of ci orizaba isaba Or BY D P algnia CPS 0 4 mel URET any V S LEO MON tur casual reading of nn nil article ou on the volcano oa of mexico first suggested aus aug ctol to me the wan ilca ot of scaling feeling or M it is called by tho the azteca the aa gaiu a of oe anahuac Anahu ac slaving ascended pope entered ou on a former occasion find and gazed out over a 11 sea ben of clouds cloud anthe on the frozen top of IU a mighty rival the ibo thought suggested itself that it A mould to lc interesting to reverse the positions portions ten and look bick back I 1 would not nil id mo any of my friends to r acal th tho 0 ox ex ariment cut for experience has convinced mo me that however beautiful tend and poetical enow a now mountain is i in tho the distance dittA its ill actual la desolation asil cut lifeless waste and tho the climb does not pay be but t considerations consul of thu thin kind aro are ml dom hum humored oraIl tit ab the start of an expedition aud and isom I 1 am not aura that my companion compau iOD mr liter morphy whose indomitable la ed glish pluck and resolution held out to the list last will anvill agree with nio me in my illy cry 0 of 11 enough if not there arto still several mountain it left for him bun to explore an soon as aa tho the expedition was wan decided upon I 1 mr bir morphy and I 1 called upon mr tr of tho the or of public 1 arks for tho the reopened purpose of obtaining fast inatsu ru monts to measure heig heights lits eto ate this tell led to tho the appointment of it ft commission of engineers by that thab department to accord n oy us ua the person named were 1 Meb tre Jira beirs 3 sany datoo to a plow retire vigil enriqui rodriguez nud aud rated rafael mantes do oca naturalist wo found them to bo be a gentlemanly ren tie manly earn coni a att mellown fel lown and occurred during the trip to mar our good goa relict relations ions tho the point from which the ibo ascent or of orl ailia is id generally undertaken is in sin andres a pleasant little town u bibb hex e s directly default y in under tho the great volcano nt at ila L s southwestern bate base hero the sulphur miners and add tho the como come dou re to sell line prod urte ot or kneir hatta roo OR industry inan scry and nil and nn an outfit eon be obtained we v butt bad selected a peculiarly unfavorable time to make tho the ascent owma to tho the re cleat heavy storms end no n our tram train drew into the station ti liou of san andres ou on the after noon of the esth mat last we could see sea that the mow WM was low down on tho the mountains lead that torm clouda clouds nuil linge lingered rail bout about their summits to n add III to our do spoil dency wo we wen n era I 1 laughed augh ad at cond dima cou raged by every one ODO along the lino line and jurt jest na as tho the train camo came to it a tit nt the ligou a beary lau mitori commenced tho the v violence clence of which I 1 havo have never seen equalled equal led in ili morico balm in lew than half an benr over rover six RIX treaties inches of bail bad fallen and the harround ing country was as white as the snowy peak we were hoping to explore on reaching tile tho town of which ili u about rive five miles from the railroad station waiver wo confronted with gloomy accounts of tho the lu oura tho the guides gnisci grid and minors minora had bad all como 0 do down a a and it ted ilia abo comeens ion tin im abl for dorial days daya to conic como there bad been bee n no such finch storm rt 6 this thie season in fifty toy yen rose they mail bad and to attempt to go up would ile bo madness although very much disappointed tit nt the do daliy fly an our oar timo time was waa limited hunted there waa no thought of giving up tho the expedition ill and it 11 wait waa arranged that morphy and I 1 should upend spend a few days hanling in the mountains moun tAina u hilo bile tho the meers put their mi ini alace merits in order and took a few observations to ita about and that wo we a to ill all to moot meet ou on the evening of at the fifth at the cavo care of the sulphur miners lit tied tho foot of the abrupt meant of tho the alc ol ealco buo this cave aich the indiana casill la 14 cetera lie swi cruz crus is about tax ix out of and in to orizaba what tho the little poncho of IB 8 to ilia last resting place li 1 fure one launches himself out on the frozen desert it is ia nothing nettling more than a no a in and under acom ide eving rocks two I 1 IN one by the nanno namo of loon have bavo charge of i lie place au aal I oversee the era 1 I hoy her nrc are full blooded indiana goner i anid n felloe aud I 1 think maj I 1 ra member auf of our party tit ill remember ajl it faly the spirit with which ilic 1 put their poor fit at our rk ditico ice these in ano a mon men acro era the abo gotides n I 1 I 1 ardel employed by and my i ii art 0 i the louff long pull poll to tho the top tole J ih li cao of auta cruz is between tuilio u UI i i 1 teon thousand feet above tile sea aea 1 I I 1 it t ih ife tetuo of our visit taft mall i ell up nil into n 0 0 liro O I 1 in IN hunt not up g expedition undertaken un dritA iton by 1 I 1 I ri r ia binl ana a fmunro in gofir L i i nubin ill P C MIG atna ael colic craid wa ANs spout ilire tilte tip lip ind aid doun doan select IM I M 1 1 i through Ib mow milow knee deep lid m 1 ml HI oi aiu lu lei in tile tho open vile air red aud the ro idt alt if r ill h hiir ter tramps VIM m tile ibo right of at one t I 1 i tall d rabbit at night the llie volam I 1 r avit iti would come down and howl i oui one camp but butan we never go KOC L a e hot oi at one of them there era aro rail mij to bo be deer 11 id it huge hog or peco lorion cuts call and other and ui no an in fit find about the lime basc of oriental but wo we failed to fi 6 even their trucks tracks th tho unusually heavy snow way may have bavo callad I 1 them nil ill to alk tao shelter in ili other respects our wag waa iud add full of lut creoL we were most moat of tho the time high above the el country on tho the wooded ricca which tho the baso base of tho the peak tho the m ither wout waa plea mint and lie tile tho view on I 1 bryido I 1 cry ery aldo ido and nil with ith our two limilo donkey and indium A net boll stoked sto tok ked cil box and no DO thought of ct en wo nebout iu tho 11 II 11 cu i aniu of that teab abbot IW freedom one ft in lapool h A man enjoys ao nodule much after long of confinement in ft crowded tied city C 7 1 it w waa CI cid ld arid and at it tl lit CU tI stars would look down I 1 iho he tops forms of tho the pines as aa if lei in decision ul u 0 i 1 but no becnel der a iri i as olo thiu in ili tho the of experiences it wait wa about I 1 of the tiny all a related that ihna wo pul flat iu ill an til ol the rendezvous bior reveral sav crl houie acau bui at path had wound mound up thron through h tile doli dolila lf ravines which separ clue tho the niri from tho ilia peak great masses of voice nii rock were lei ell rp on every mid bide a slid and ou on the entire ri fa ric c jc if coure connary L hilf bill coverall cov cicil with could 1 I Z read t iho a irnee of the bivnno bh it day ay must little shaken ili I 1 tr hills hilla to their dalious dat ious our friends bail bad not conic up ili on 00 our oa irra yet but supposing they would woul i not ito bi too iii we eve spent ilia remainder of ilia lilt i noun doon in for ate early start a oi the following apo al se A pol um he 1 I it I 1 for our fla hag L lo 10 0 o natt harud i help hall carry a our r ll lit kitt i r 1 1 it ella ou oil 01 feet I 1 mud iiii ilis 1 t r n cle lb and blood with ija judiah 20 3 te le 1 eta ilAt and placed ready lr jr use and ayr tai wax was cro mared for ilia early lerl 1 U ww was jalo jaio la in I 1 tu e evening arcen gocr 0 camo up and I 1 d tit n jimiy of ta tir p i annot hinr alla li Is of at their bugge bw v w still allt 1 nion I I 1 oil I 1 of nl u tho the trail to chilel ch di th i folio fr u it could 11 b II 11 ft off with fu I 1 fi I 1 I 1 eclie j fo following low out if fa f i was waa it dr odi that marl morphy by XI I 1 at I 1 rift on alone still 11 we raw bid lit lint of the wait nit there until ibo bil cime aline up me e would have bato fein oin to lother limit but crathin crr thin being acad kaiu eil little predon it blittle A on myri oril and c oe it wn wa the bert mil t bat could lim LA infield two 0 clolk van etal the hour liked upon foi fat turning out 1 it ice happened that I 1 wai as tho to wake up unit by tho the done dim light ot at the ihu hog tire fife which wo we bad lift burning in the middle of the but bat all nights iii lit I 1 could ia rea tho the be boa albing lying around lu in nil all x 0 orui r a of pmj tiou aud and they looked no j earn com fordable for fort table ablo that I 1 hated bated to disturb them N raby iny illy with his hia body half outdoors outdoor and CD an empty bottle battle ander his bid head plow places had bad a loaf conf of bread for a pillow and rested one log leg compo composedly comp odly edly across the store ach of one of tho the Jud judiann Jf idian ians while I 1 igil find and who bad rolled olves into fiew a huge buc joe bits in one comer center of tho the hut seemed to be in imminent danger of being trampled upon by a cattle who VIM as gradually working himself into tho the place in orelin to got closer to elio fire cro timo lime WM was up however howo vor so ao I 1 stirred up morphy rind out oui indicate mul and after about tin an hours bours delay in ID getting coffee acte wo we were off it w as so co dark and tho the dailon was wan so BO deer find and uncertain that for tho the cret aret half houi bout wo we were guided more by the donoto of feet in ing than thai of eight but our eyes soon boon became accustomed to the ibo darkness and as 01 the guides marched straight ahead alpar cutly chukly guided by an instinct rus unerring n w that of a blood bound holud HO a gained more confidence and were soon oon mb lapping epping oil off ml balu tho the blackness blackn cu as though it ib n ere our net nath element li lorphy got him self up to lorn pit b a 3 of ct that on one occa occasion cion ho he site plied over a bauk bank kit ecat high aad fc took throe guides to got him bini out abut amt h ha hoa ban nc never er ct at acknowledged that lie bo could not see fice ou on blog tho the allow there wait no trouble about finding the way cis as tho the ro to lu sufficient 0 ou u 48 a starlight tar light night to miko onory foot fool track vio uble wo cra six fill told four indians indiana morphy mid and no party ever tried tin nn A client v aih ill better follows for guides they know every inch of the ground round acro ere strong and good natured nod end took a it lively ely juice in the success of our enterprise an am we were tho the fint to go tip tilt clefter the heavy storms tt it MO a went prepared to have bovo n touch climb the indiana taid weft 17 I 1 the top by ten a 0 clock witten HM as i n I 1 I 1 neven 1 lionni loan to to do it in under nr if I 1 i I 1 i I 1 r and andt thoo ben the snow enow to ir I 1 H st t condition the sulphur miners go i 1 lie ibo n or six EIX hours houra from the cave but oil ir ocal woon they had under ibo be tho the snow was low do down n ot and nil i cry heava and long before the sun peeped up over the murky horizon wo we were launched upon tho the ion glutt glistening erang ono one end of u which ruch ri idi ng leg out to touch the iho adars nad the odor shot far below us uj into a bank of cland it is a rare night bi ehfe to look down dowal scorn front a far hd heighton bt on a tumbling men aci of clouds anil and oh aceti en they esteep in bi rega truit tile tho hand biao of our peah anil and cut cat ott air tho the world you yon feel startled mid look closer to our dreaher ous football for it seems thita thit 1 blip would you yon into a sea that heaven and rollic and reaches away into infinity sunlight found us na on the ibo south side aido of the mountain on a level about equal to the height of tho the sierra degrell tho the ascent now began to bo be very laborious labo and for the first ficat time lime wo me began coot cutting tAng footsteps in the ibo ico ice in ID order to proceed wiled when half way up lip the mountain tho the route usually taken ii H alona A edge of rocks ro up tip out of tile tho snow enow liko like the derail tin of a and runs runn cleat clear to tile tho top toll in ili this ibis lepert orizaba differ ii very r c ry much from its ila kind kindred peak fo apt 1 ihara mointa of rock stock stick out oil nil over its surface liko like the abo spines ot of a porcu pared pula pino while tile the summit of kopoc is a diu I in unbroken cono cone theoti roc rocks ka ou on tho the llopes of Orli gonzaba caba oro are one of the principal mour cese of looser danger in 10 tho the ano cut as they often come tumbling down in great quen quan ties tica but at tho the timo time of our adventure they n plo all held fast by tho the unusually heavy 1 fall I of scow BUOYS this was a point in our favor but if wo we lid did not have to dodge rue rocks kit there wom was no I 1 ok ek of active io in other respects i ilio lie ii higher wo we wont went tho the moro more abrupt become the and the moro more uncertain the foothold too camo came around gild the ibo wan waa blell far above us every step now bad to bo be cut out of tho the solid ico ice and the fatigue and light air acro beginning to tell on oil out our uninitiated roua mom ales at elon cloven wo were it at tho the foot of what u lacot in ia known own as am the rocks rock of tho the ar chih iq tho anil grand if pull 11 the home at retch streter and it could not be on moro cro insely named darned jt it is probably not over three handled bundled arda to tho the top but it is almost a perpendicular wall man of ice and nil an it is in react reached u when bon the a liven triner it in already fainting ond and about ready to give up tell it in 19 a formidable obstacle acla wo we were throe hours houra in getting over it and then almot fat fainting filing ond and completely exhausted wo we eirew don down n on a little shot elicit of nand blind at the ibo top of p lt the peak it was waa two ili the he afternoon beat we readied reached the summit junt cloven hours after our departure from the elove cavo two of our indians left us now and slid down ibo mountain with the th tending that they wore were to come up tip for us ua early tho the next morning it seems that they preferred loathing tho the mountain again again to spending the night on ile 14 top but in talking the bit hins over morphy find and I 1 havo have omo area to tho the conclusion coo clurion filet there Is ia net loot inch choice A moro more horrible night I 1 hope oner er to shortly after our arrival a old wind antl camo came up that struck ua on to the ary ry hone ill there c re write no ide elter to IN bo aw ob b e 1 it tho the ol 01 descent e cout into the crato r was m ampo m nolte ond the from t bk 0 3 1 indians were collared dec deep p it ice acu and allow the mid hild tickled naked pank ask ir I arci r wed but ono one point x w here it was wo polle to angold the beight A little below the lip life of the III crater fat en trio eudo T aulce steam esca escapes pese through i 1 hard bed I 1 i a oi i and hard tho the snow is emel emellen led off u i i about a rod lato ahto N net scratched a ho null aud pulling our alato 1 over oter up im laid ibid down we G bad ill nr L 1 tho conf h pi III out before UA IM or ilia sun vil IL 11 i I 1 r 1 11 l do down it bloodied blo odred in ili alo ci amt t i u 11 n t utterly and cold cobl I 1 du iiii t ta 1 i any ot of us u slept a wink wick nil all wail n oln 0 froye stiff no n boards tol 11 it t to light a title spit t I 1 ap I 1 11 ninko annice coffee arc lee filli demus we vi t binl I 1 i t even drink our wine fur fr it il lend lit ilir I 1 1 i ice in the iho booties thu hour aff aar r 11 i of tile longest 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