Montanvert

Percy Bysshe Shelley describes Montanvert's "terrible precipices of solid ice" in History of a Six Weeks' Tour, Letter IV: "a chasm among mountains of inconceivable height, and of forms so pointed and abrupt, that they seem to pierce the sky." Such descriptions have influenced the description of "the tremendous and ever-moving glacier" in Frankenstein (2.2.1).

• Contexts:
  • The Sublime
• Illustrations:
  • Montanvert
  • Huts on Montanvert
  • Desportes's Hut on Montanvert
  • Mer de Glace
• Places:
  • Arveiron River
  • Mont Blanc