A seat was made on the snow with alpenstocks and ice-axe handles, and Jules goodnaturedly took off his jacket, in which he wrapped the invalid.
"An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc"
W. H. Le Mesurier
The embalmed "Europe" of her younger time had partly stood for three years of Switzerland, a term of continuous school at Vevey, with rewards of merit in the form of silver medals tied by blue ribbons and mild mountain-passes attacked with alpenstocks.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James
In Bayazid we could not procure even proper wood for alpenstocks.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben