La spedizione di sua Altezza Reale il Principe Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duca degli Abruzzi al Monte Sant' Elia (Alaska) 1897

Abstract

MOUNT ST. ELIAS, with an altitude, as now ascertained, of 18,092 feet, stands—a majestic corner-post—exactly at the angle where the Alaskan boundary-line ceases to run parallel to the coast and strikes north-ward along the 141st meridian, and its summit is now generally acknowledged to lie on the Canadian side of the frontier. Whether it maintain its supposed preeminence among the mountains of the North American continent, or whether it eventually prove to be overtopped by Mount Logan, its great neighbour on the north, or, as the most recent explorations seem to indicate, by Mount McKinley, one of the yet unvisited peaks to the west-ward, it must, from its commanding position on the verge of the open ocean, always impress the imagination as the grandest of the Alaskan Chain. In recalling the fact that the mountain was for long erroneously supposed to be a volcano, Mr. Douglas Freshfield has told us, on the authority of the poet himself, that Tennyson had Mount St. Elias in mind when he described the landscape of a volcano among snow as one of the pictures on the walls of “The Palace of Art” (see The Alpine Journal, vol. xix. p. 174).

La spedizione di sua Altezza Reale il Principe Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duca degli Abruzzi al Monte Sant Elia (Alaska) 1897.

Da Dottore Filippo de Filippi.; illustrata da Vittorio Sella. Pp. xvii + 273; with 34 plates, 4 panoramic views, 2 maps and 115 figures in text. A beneficio delle Guide Alpine Italiane. (Milano: U. Hoepli, 1900.)