In the second half of the nineteenth century, seeing that the traditional but unwieldy alpenstock might be a useful aid to climb steep slopes of snow or ice, Victorian alpinists fastened a sharpened blade ( the pick ) to the top of the alpenstock; this was used to provide positive aid.
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It is generally thought most convenient that the Alpenstock should be high enough to touch the chin of its owner, as he stands upright; but this is a matter on which it is scarcely possible, and, were it possible, scarcely necessary to lay down an absolute rule . [ End of extract of report]
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The most important base for climbing this alpenstock is the German Alpine Club's Blaueis Hut ( " Blaueish�tte ", literally " Blue Ice Hut " ) which lies at a height of in the Blaueis Cirque ( " Blaueiskar " ) below the Blaueis, the most northern glacier in the Alps.
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It seems that in 1471, Ferdinand Balboa Warner, the great-great grandfather of Harry and Jack, while looking for a shortcut to the city of Burbank, had stumbled on the shores of Africa and, raising his alpenstock, which he later turned in for a hundred shares of the common, he named it Casablanca.
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In what may be its most famous reference, an alpenstock was carried by Sherlock Holmes in May 1891, when climbing near the Gemmi Pass and at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, which took place during his and Dr Watson's flight from Professor Moriarty in " The Final Problem ", the last adventure in " The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ".
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