Romantico Corsica, peregrinazioni di Napoleone isola; . si è conclusa in esaurimento di forza e suitablennparliamentary epiteti. Per muovere contro o attraverso la menzogna fu un unpossibihty. Una piccola meraviglia che l'eroe di una vendetta può snaphis dita a gendarme e bloodhound thisstaff a. Attraversando il Col Foggiale, fino alle pendici orientali delle quali ci erano state lavorando duramente per due ore, abbiamo fatto peril rocce della parete sud della Paglia Orba. Rapidhand e piedi per qualche centinaio di metri è stato followedby una verifica temporanea. L'ostacolo era una fessura orchimney, 100 metri di altezza, a fronte di una practicallyvertical r

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Romantic Corsica, wanderings in Napoleon's isle; . ended in exhaustion of strength and suitablennparliamentary epithets. To move against or across the lie was an unpossibihty. Small wonder that the hero of a vendetta can snaphis fingers at gendarme and bloodhound in thisstaff. Crossing the Col Foggiale, up the eastern slopes ofwhich we had been toiling for two hours, we made forthe rocks of the southern wall of Paglia Orba. Rapidhand and foot work for a few hundred feet was followedby a temporary check. The obstacle was a fissure orchimney, 100 feet high, in the face of a practicallyvertical rock. After some apologetic remarks aboutwant of training and first climbs, we roped up, anddimbed the cleft This proved the only real difficulty, though some slabs and ledges required care in theirascent, and we were soon on the roof of the body andon the summit of the tower itself, after four and a halfhours of actual going from the camp and two hours fromthe Col Foggiale, 1, 870 feet below. All Corsica appeared to lie at our feet with the excep-. CLIMBING IN CORSICA 313 tion of Monte Cinto to the north-east, who seemed to say, Im monarch of all you survey, and dwarfed its moresport-giving n, eighbours. Capo Larghia and PuntaMinuta at the head of the Virothal. The sea beyondCap Corse was visible to the north, and on the north-eastern horizon a faint coast line could be distinguished.Southwards a confusing conglomeration of mountaintops rendered identification of individual ones difficult, owing to the heat haze, which obscured the southern endof the island. Our tents 4, 000 feet below looked so close and small, that it seemed as if a stone deftly thrown would haveannihilated them. The view to the west was cut off bythe long roof of the church, and in this direction laythe redoubtable peak, Capo Tafonato, perforated by itsfamous hole. To obtain a view of this we descended in its directionuntil we were on the roof of the chancel and the topof the cliffs which plunge down into the Kess

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