Diablerets

The most interesting field of these Swiss mountain falls is a high mountain valley of amphitheatrical form, known as the Diablerets, or the devil's own district.

Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

"Diablerets" close to a rapid mountain stream, which was of a greyish white, like bubbling soap suds.

The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. Fanny [Translator] Fuller 1840

A number of Swiss lifts were closed by high winds but skiing should be good soon on new snow in Les Diablerets (90-350cm, 30cm of new snow) and Saas Fee (70-345cm, 10cm new).

Skiwatch: Andrea brings high winds and a mantle of heavy snow 2012

This is no doubt owing to the fact, that, when the main glacier had already retreated considerably up the valley, the lateral glaciers from the chains of the Combin and the Diablerets still reached the valley of the Rhone at a lower point, and barred the outlet of the waters from the glaciers above.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

There was a visit to Olympe, married in Lausanne, and to the brother Auguste who was an invalid at Diablerets, and a good-bye to each of them which they knew was for always.

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz 1939

Diablerets on the west, and the Wetterhorn on the east, and they are the flanking bastions of another great wall, the Bernese Oberland.

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

Diablerets danced and sang into his blood; across the broken teeth of the Dent du Midi trailed thin strips of early cloud.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

Diablerets, Wildhorn, and Massif de la Brèche by Lugeon, [2] or finally Termier's section of the Pelvoux Massif, [3] one is reminded of the breaking of waves on a sloping beach.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

Clariden, the Spannörter, the Titlis, then the Bernese _colossi_ from the Wetterhorn to the Diablerets, then the peaks of Vaud, Valais, and

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

But after visiting with him the glaciers of the Diablerets, those of the valley of Chamounix, and the moraines of the great valley of the Rhone and its principal lateral valleys, he came away satisfied that a too narrow interpretation of the phenomena was Charpentier's only mistake.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885