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Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Dolomite

A hard magnesian limestone, offering special difficulties to the climber. Dôme. A rounded snow-peak..

Eave-Cornice.

Firn. Glacier, but often applied as in névé (q.v.).

Föhnwind. -A warm south-east wind in the Alps, most common in spring and autumn. It is more common in some valleys than others, and has important influence on the snow and ice.

Frost-bite. An evil due most frequently to wind, or to wet; against which precautions must always be taken. The injury is a freezing of the tissues, and consequent mortification of the part affected.

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