Identity area
Reference code
GB 2014 WS-04-LAN-03-01
Title
The Dogs and Monks of St Bernard
Date(s)
- 1884-1894 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
12 slides
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
An educational lecture about the role of the monks and dogs in mountain search and rescue operations at the St Bernard Pass in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland. The narrative is an account of a group of tourists who get into difficulty as a result of an avalanche. A St Bernard dog discovers a child and carries him back to the hostel on its back. Another dog leads the monks to where a woman is buried in the snow. Mother and child are reunited. The complete set of digitised images of these slides can be seen online at http://www.slides.uni-trier.de/set/index.php?id=3005013 [accessed 05/10/2015]