Show WO women and nd mont blanc sixty ona anjo women anz i n in all have made the ascent of mont blanc the fact is testified vp say ant I 1 corr respondent esponde nt of galbignani by the antique ique register religiously kept at the of the guides at Cha as every everybody may see for himself the book is nj I more faithful record than one might just as on somo some ill fated preci pye on the alps a wooden cross marka mark the spot where a too adventurous climber er er has 3 met his death so liere here a cil au lugubrious nol rious arc cross is set against the name of ev v r ry y victim aati who lias has failed to reach his jo r rn n ys 1 end and the oft recurring formula for mua requiescat scat in pace may perhaps account for the reluctance with which tho the book is shown to intending ex the first female ascent of the giant of the alps was made by two french women ono of aristocratic and the other of plebeian birth their example was quickly followed in after seasons and in the end the record stands as follows english women 32 french women 15 russian women 4 american women 3 swiss women 2 and prussian danish hungarian italian and austrian I 1 each eleven of diese ladies accompanied their kus husbands bands the mania for making ascents accents through evil and good report has this year beeny been rather at her conspicuous the excursions to the summit having numbered thirty nine as against an average of eleven the french on till this occasion occasion have taken the lead followed not very c closely I 1 asel y by englishmen and englise Eng liali I 1 women and still further off by americans american cans and germans most of the french who have ventured forth to tho the summit are members of the alpine club while those of other nationalities de dc end for tile the most part upon their own rew rese ces or the cornecl of guides pall mall k k azette adette |