arete

We were now on the arête but a very short distance from the summit.

Going up the Arête the pause between each step, whilst the alpenstock was being driven in, was sufficiently long to afford a rest.

To his gigantic size and strength he united the sureness of a cat in climbing up or down a mountain arête.

If we fell from the arête we might not stop going for four thousand feet.

The summit, says Javelle, is only the culminating point of a sharp, notched arête about a hundred meters long.