Show VERY NEAR TO DEATH life of alpine climber literally hung by a thread one ot of the greatest dangers ot of mountaineering Is from falling stones yet the number of fatal accidents from this cause Is as few as the nar ear row escapes are many As exciting an experience as can well be imag ined is described in the alpine jour nal and quoted by the author of ad ventures on the root ot of the world the party consisted ot of mr horace walker mr G E V foster and two guides the climbers wished to as bend du midi from the mon ta rivert and be the first to go down dow n the steep face of the mountain on the Ch chamouni amount side all at first went well and soon they began to cross the face of the cliff to gain a rocky buttress that offered a likely route some hundred feet be low the top of the wall jacob was leading writes mr foster roster walker next I 1 followed and baumann brought up the rear only one was moving at a time and everyone had the rope as taut as possible between himself and his neighbor jacob was crossing a narrow gully when sud denly without any warning as though he had trod on the keystone of the wall the whole face for some forty feet above him peeled off and with a crash like thunder hundreds of tons of rocks precipitated themselves on him in an instant he waa was torn from his hold and hurled down the krecl pice with them fortunately Fortun tely walker was as able to hold on though the strain on him was something awful prom from our post tion it was impossible to see what had become of jacob and only the tight ope told us that his body at least living or dead was still fastened to ta us in a voice singularly unlike his own walker cried out jacob jacobi and I 1 trust my readers can imagine the relief we felt when ahe he reply came back I 1 am still living walker craned over the rock and then turned round isee I 1 see him he Is awfully hurt I 1 after a moment ja cob managed to recover his footing and then untied the rope with trem bling fingers and crawled along the tho face of the cliff to the other bide side of the gully ike ve bound up his wound wounds as welt as 5 a could he had had a mar ma canelous nelous clous escape no large fragment had t i fully he ile aaa mas badly bruiel brule I 1 all oi 01 er but no bones were broken and after a quarter of an hours hour s r t je e sad a d be was as ready to aali I 1 on tn ti n lo 10 d of the rope to tie him oi 01 ii i ci i ve e were awestruck to find a I 1 ts 1 strands but one had been 0 o trat his ft hole weight had hung almont on a thread |