Chapter 16 THE PIZ SCERSCEN TWICE IN FOUR DAYS-THE FIRST ASCENT OF MONT BLANC BY A WOMAN.

It was a mad thing to do. I realised that when thinking of it afterwards; but this is how it happened.

I had arranged with a friend, Mr Edmund Garwood, to try a hitherto unattempted route on a mountain not far from Maloja. He was to bring his guide, young Roman Imboden; I was to furnish a second man, Wieland, of St Moritz.

Wieland on the high