Add to ORKG59 [It] is hard to give up a brave mtn [mountain] like the Matterhorn that you have counted on for yrs even for a single day & the upshot of this new view was that I began to scramble down towards the first gl [glacier] that lay beneath me reached it struck my axe into its snow & found it in good condition crisp yet not too hard. There were some crevasses that threatened & in some places the schrund [bergschrund] yawned in what is called a cruel & infernal manner but I escaped all these passing the schrund by a snow bridge & reached the narrow gap found to my delight that I could scramble down the S [south] side & that after I reached the edge of a little lake in wh [which] huge snow bergs were drifting [that] the rest of the way to the pk...