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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Well, then, push on. The sooner we are in the hut the better." "Please, what is a guxe?" asked Helen, when the men had nothing more to say. "A word I would have wished to add later to your Alpine phrase book. It means a storm, a blizzard." "Should we not return at once in that event?" "What? Who said just now she was not afraid?" "But a storm in such a place!"
Stampa tells me that a first rate guxe, which is Swiss for a blizzard, I believe, is blowing up. This thunder storm is the preliminary to a heavy downfall of snow. That is why I came. If we are not off the glacier before two o'clock, it will become impassable till a lot of the snow melts." "What is that you are saying?" demanded Bower bruskly.
"Truly, on a fine day, Josef," was the smiling answer. "I told monsieur that a guxe was blowing up from the south; so did Karl; but he would not hearken. Ma foi! I am not to blame." Barth, on his dignity, introduced a few words of French picked up from the Chamounix men. He fancied they would awe Stampa, and prove incidentally how wide was his own experience. The old guide only laughed.
My compliments fall on idle ears." Barth interrupted this play of harmless chaff by jerking some remark over his shoulder. "Looks like a guxe," he said gruffly. "Nonsense!" said Bower, "a bank of mist. The sun will soon melt it." "It's a guxe, right enough," chimed in Karl, who had recovered his power of speech. "That is why the boy was blowing his horn to show he was bringing the cattle home."
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