Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — Tyndall’s Mountain Diet. [ARTICLE]

Tyndall’s Mountain Diet.

Correspondence New York Tribune. He used to experiment not only on nature but on himself. I once asked him what food he took on the mountains. He said the guides commonly consumed a mixture of butter and honey, which they had found supplied for long excursions, in the most portable form, the greatest amount of heat and nourishment. But for himself he liked cakes ol chocolate best, and ‘hese he used to eat every two hours while climbing. His love for the Alps was more than scientific and more than mountaineering or the both together. It was a passion, and they were his home every summer during the last twenty years or so of his life: He had a cottage on the Bel Alp to which he went regularly, and when he chose a country home in England he chose Hindhead, nearly 1,000 feet above the level of the sea. He understood, as few men in the fog-laden and mistenshrouded isle seem to understand, the value of pure, dry, fresh air. It was to him a condition of intellectual vitality.