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among the rocks. I found many different Alpine then continued my journey to Faak, from where
small bushes and has violet flowers, but I cou- and at ½ past 6 returned to Villach, where the
flowers, including alpenflora, which grows in
ld not find edelweiss anywhere, even though
I even climbed up to spots from which I could
have easily slipped. After I got tired of the frui-
tless search, I headed back. Like a chamois, I was
jumping from rock to rock and by 8 in the af-
ternoon I had returned to the shelter. I entered
my name in the book there and wanted to pay
20 kreutzer for lodging, but the woman wou-
I crossed Mount Tolona (666 m) to Maria Gail
housekeeper was already fearing that I had re-
mained stuck up there somewhere, all broken.
Just when I gazed back up at Mittagskogel, the
sun irradiated the peak as if crowning it, and it
was then that I realized that I had become com-
pletely captivated by the mountains and could
have immediately climbed up to the peak again.
In the evening, when I returned to the city, I
ld not accept the money. I therefore bought 4 was perfectly fine and did not feel fatigued at
so I left the shelter at 1600 metres above sea on flat roads, for mountains do not corrupt the
postcards and the woman gifted me two more,
level with 6 cards. I returned to Latschach and
all. It is better to walk across mountains than
feet, they make one stronger.
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