Emery County Progress | 1908-09-12 | Page 4 | On the Summit of Mont Blanc

the towns and v flages of the alpine d str acts in sw tz erland are crowded just now w th climbers of all nat ons who elect to spend the r hoi day time in the conquest of the mounta n peaks the cl mb ng season is in full sw ng and has already been attended unfortunately by the usual crop of serious cc de a in our illustrato illus trat on a grolo of french mounta are shown stand ng by the janssen observatory on the t of mont blanc the mountain is snowcapped all the year round and the observatory itself is bu it on a foundation of snow deep borings having fa led to d any rock