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Show Enduranco of a Guide. An Alpine guide. Phillppo Allamand. of Bex, has gained publicity in tho Swiss papers by a marvelous pedestrian pedes-trian achievement. He started on a Monday from Taesch and ascended to the Weisshoru hut, whence he returned re-turned to the valley to fetch a mem-I mem-I ber of his party who had been left behind. be-hind. There was time for only threo hours' sleep after that, and then the Wels6horn had to be climbed It was in bad condition, and the ascent took nearly 11 hours. No sooner had he reached the top than Allamand hastened hast-ened down and proceeded to Zermatt to join another party who had engaged en-gaged him for the Matterhorn. He overtook them In tho hut at four o'clock on Tuesday morning, went up the Matterhorn at once, and did not get back until 11 o'clock ci Wednesday Wednes-day night, having been 44 hours without with-out sleep, walking and climbing all the time. Even then he took only a day's rest before leading a party up the Dent Blanche. |