Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — Famous Guide a Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Famous Guide a Suicide.

Adolphe Balmat, one of the most famous of the Swiss guides, has committed suicide within sight of Mont Blanc, the mountain his ancestor had been the first to scale, in 1786, and which the old guide himself had climbed nearly seventy times. He was no- one-mountain man and he ..pnew Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn and the Jungfrau equally welL But, unwilling to risk any longer the lives of his clients or to content himself —he, the great Balmat—with beaten tracks, and unable to bear the mention of bis name grow scarcer and scarcer, he has taken what is known as the coward’s way out. “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnish’d." He saved many lives for the one he took. The bitterness of being superseded is tasted to the full only by those who refuse to relax the battle agalnat years'—London Evening Standard.