All this is not picture-making, but it is a valuable contribution and preliminary to criticism.
From Chamouni this year they went to Simplon, and met J.D.Forbes, the geologist, whose "viscous theory" of glaciers Ruskin adopted and defended with warmth later on, and to the Bell' Alp, long before it had been made a place of popular resort by Professor Tyndall's notice.

The "Panorama of the Simplon from the Bell' Alp" is to be found in the St.
George's (Ruskin) Museum at Sheffield, as a record of his draughtsmanship in this period.

Thence to Zermatt with Osborne Gordon; Zermatt, too, unknown to the fashionable tourist, and innocent of hotel luxuries.

It is curious that, at first sight, he did not care for the Matterhorn.

It was entirely unlike his ideal of mountains.