aiguille
Example Sentences
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Our attention was engaged by the remarkable spike of rock, a proper aiguille.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
The larger masses of the whole aiguille, and true contour of this horn, are carefully given in plate 30, Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
On the 15th, about midday, we arrived upon the summit of the aiguille, and found that we had actually been within one hundred feet of it when we turned back upon the first attempt.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
Next, to the left, comes the largest of the buttresses of which I have spoken, almost forming an aiguille in itself.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
It needs to be buried in the snow by Joseph, and drunk out of a horn tumbler, at the foot of an aiguille, after a six hours' climb, to be at its best.
From Olivia in India by O. Douglas
