Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Canadian Alpine Journal
I must again allude to the transport which any one who is a mountaineer must realize is one of the great diffi culties of mountain warfare. The roads I have spoken of, but as I sit in my office room in a small house near the River and look up to the hills, I can see number less fine, thin yellow and white streaks threading and zigzagging upwards in all directions - on the lower slopes the loops are longer and high up are shorter - and if one's eyes are keen one can see even at the top slow moving wagons and faster moving motor lorries going up and down and it does look so busy. Through the glass all kind of life comes into the picture and if one were up amongst it, as I am every few days in a light, high-powered, short wheel-base Fiat_ car, he enters into the real excitement of hanging on to a narrow ledge cut out of the mountain side with just enough room to let two cars pass - but I could write on for hours about these mountain roads and what is to be seen upon them. Then, the other transport even more wonderful still!
The Teleferica - the cableway, as we would call it in Canada. It is developed here for warfare and is the means by which tons and tons of stuff are sent up daily to. British troops alone, to say nothing of the many miles of front thus served for the Italian tr00ps. Supplies of food, forage, ammunition, construction material, all are to be seen gliding slowly upward in their little iron boxes, across the valleys, up the rock faces, through forests and up the scree Slopes to the landing platforms high up, oftentimes in the clouds. These are the things you read about and see pictures of and, I suppose, wonder, as I did, if they are not toys rather than real, practical, every day machines. Not a bit of it! And your admiration and confidence in them is complete after you ride in one yourself, being sure to hang on tight and not get giddy when you look down into the deep valleys.
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