Life Saving Work

The canines fabricated accomplishment excursions on the St. Bernard Canyon for the abutting 150 years. Often the dogs would acquisition active travelers, dig through the snow and lie on top of the afflicted to accommodate warmth. Meanwhile, the added dog would acknowledgment to the auberge to active the monks of the abandoned pilgrim. The arrangement became so organized that back Napoleon and his 250,000 soldiers beyond through the canyon amid 1790 and 1810, not one soldier absent his life. The soldiers' chronicles acquaint of how abounding lives were adored by the dogs in what the army alleged "the White Death."
Although in fable casks of liquor were beggared about the dogs' collars to balmy up travelers, no actual annal abide that certificate this practice. But addition fable was actual real: acclaimed St. Bernard, Barry, who lived in the abbey from 1800-1812, adored the lives of added than 40 people. In 1815, Barry's anatomy was put on display at the Natural History Museum in Berne, Switzerland, area it charcoal today.
Between 1816 and 1818, the winter snowstorms at St. Bernard Canyon were decidedly severe, and abounding dogs died in avalanches while accomplishing accomplishment work. As a result, the St. Bernard brand active at the auberge came abutting to extinction. However, the brand was replenished two years afterwards with agnate animals from adjacent valleys.
All in all, the St. Bernard accomplishment dogs were accustomed with extenuative the lives of added than 2,000 bodies until the aftermost accurate accretion in 1897 back a 12-year-old boy was begin about arctic in a abyss and alive by a dog.