10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORNICED»
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corniced in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
1997 American Alpine Journal
Ahead a section of steeply corniced ridge led to a large serac climbable only by
an abutting snow pinnacle. Above this an "impregnable" serac wall could be
bypassed only by traversing well to the left onto the east face, under the seracs
on ...
American Alpine Club Press
2
Old Brooklyn Heights: New York's First Suburb : Including ...
4-storied brick, corniced labels over windows; listed in 1845 city directory (No. 73
) A. Downs, flour; late XIX cent. cornice, entrance lowered, plate glass. 126. 3-
storied brick, Greek Revival, door enframement with “Greek ears” supporting ...
Clay Lancaster, Edmund Vincent Gillon, 1979
3
The Complete Mountaineer
for any signs of this formation, and if any are noticed from below facing, say, in a
northerly direction, it is safe to assume that the higher part of the mountain will be
heavily corniced on that side. Sometimes they are extremely difficult to detect, ...
George Dixon Abraham, 1908
Three-light windows and a pilastered and corniced doorpiece at the rendered
ground floor. The upper floor's outer bays are of rubble; pedimented ashlar
centrepiece containing an overarched and aproned Venetian window. No. 3,
dated 1796 ...
5
The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies
The spectacular snow fin below the summit is not as bad as it looks, though
considerable care is required, particularly if it is double corniced. If snow
conditions permit, you can belay this stretch, using pickets and/or buried ice axes
as ...
6
Badminton library of sports and pastimes
Snow slopes that are extremely steep on both sides are very unlikely to be
corniced at the top. Ridges that are mixed — that is, partly snow and partly rock
— will often take in the inexperienced. The little snow saddles that interrupt the
rock ...
7
Some Days from a Hill Diary: Scotland, Iceland, Norway, 1943-50
We could have stayed long here but Creag Meagaidh beckoned. Leaving the car
at Aberarder, a farm surrounded by wind-swept larches, we climbed the shoulder
of Sron a' Choire. A corniced ridge swept to a cone above Puist Coire Ardair, ...
8
The Roskelley Collection: Nanda Devi, Last Days, and Stories ...
The sixth and last pitch of the day was mine. The ridge steepened to fifty-five
degrees as I approached the twenty-one-thousand-foot pinnacle, an obvious
landmark beginning the main corniced ridge to the summit two thousand five
hundred ...
9
The American Alpine Journal
Section three, the next 1600 feet of the route, was a spectacular corniced arete.
The principle difficulties were continuous cornices and occasional knife-edges, a
100-foot headwall that ended on a three-foot- thick fin of ice, a twenty-foot-high ...
American Alpine Club, H. Adams Carter, 1997
10
The Alpine 4000m Peaks by the Classic Routes
The Ochs (Klein-Fiescherhorn) 3900m, to the east-north-east, reached along a
narrow, corniced ridge, is a feasible addition if based at the Finsteraarhorn Hut.
Other worthwhile routes: North-West Ridge (AD, III, mixed, and ice to 50°, a 4km ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CORNICED»
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corniced is used in the context of the following news items.
Sprawling 18th century mansion complete with its own cave where …
It boasts seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, a dressing room and two balconies as well as large ground floor reception rooms with high corniced ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Sibthorpe houses for sale for the first time in 30 years
There are high corniced ceilings, beautiful period fireplaces, including several slate and fossilised stone surrounds, deep skirting and ... «Nottingham Post, Jun 15»
Salesians to break final link with Warrenstown
The property retains all the charm and dignity of a period house and many original features remain intact including richly corniced ceilings, ... «Meath Chronicle, Jun 15»
Property will appeal to those in equine sector
Many original features have been retained including corniced ceilings, mouldings and architraves, windows shutters and a grand sweeping ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»
The Lonesome South: Worshipping the Southern Gothic
Consider an ornate European cathedral, corniced with dark, mossy stone and catching the distant sun in its multicoloured panes. Walk through ... «Redbrick, Jun 15»
Cork harbour home is awash with opportunity
The entrance porch is to the right, offset, and off the hall are linked reception rooms, pleasant rooms of their era, replete with corniced ceilings, ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»
Top Let: Grand designs on the property market
The entrance hall is a dramatic dark blue with chequer-board floor tiles leading under a corniced arch to the staircase. There is a glass ... «Irish Independent, May 15»
On to a winner with two homes next to Fairyhouse for €850k
The drawing room has a corniced ceiling and a marble fireplace and the sitting room has the same. Accessed off the drawing room is the formal ... «Irish Independent, May 15»
The Plural Present: Artists Research Unconditional Love
Situated around the banquet hall of the Chelsea College of the Arts, the corniced high ceilings and low-lit chandeliers imposed a regal air, imbuing the ... «ArtSlant, May 15»
Too steep? Too difficult? Not for climbers who pioneered new …
The following day the two made the first ascent of Peak 8,290, climbing a corniced ridge to a granite summit pyramid. A short stretch of rock ... «Alaska Dispatch News, May 15»
