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At
the
end
of
the
slope
he
fell
a
thousand
feet
,
and
came
down
in
the
midst
of
a
cloud
of
snow
upon
a
snow
slope
even
steeper
than
the
one
above
.
Down
this
he
was
whirled
,
stunned
and
insensible
,
but
without
a
bone
broken
in
his
body
;
and
then
at
last
came
to
gentler
slopes
,
and
at
last
rolled
out
and
lay
still
,
buried
amidst
a
softening
heap
of
the
white
masses
that
had
accompanied
and
saved
him
.
He
came
to
himself
with
a
dim
fancy
that
he
was
ill
in
bed
;
then
realised
his
position
with
a
mountaineer
's
intelligence
,
and
worked
himself
loose
and
,
after
a
rest
or
so
,
out
until
he
saw
the
stars
.
He
rested
flat
upon
his
chest
for
a
space
,
wondering
where
he
was
and
what
had
happened
to
him
.
He
explored
his
limbs
,
and
discovered
that
several
of
his
buttons
were
gone
and
his
coat
turned
over
his
head
.
His
knife
had
gone
from
his
pocket
and
his
hat
was
lost
,
though
he
had
tied
it
under
his
chin
.
He
recalled
that
he
had
been
looking
for
loose
stones
to
raise
his
piece
of
the
shelter
wall
.
His
ice-axe
had
disappeared
.
He
decided
he
must
have
fallen
,
and
looked
up
to
see
,
exaggerated
by
the
ghastly
light
of
the
rising
moon
,
the
tremendous
flight
he
had
taken
.
For
a
while
he
lay
,
gazing
blankly
at
that
vast
pale
cliff
towering
above
,
rising
moment
by
moment
out
of
a
subsiding
tide
of
darkness
.
Its
phantasmal
,
mysterious
beauty
held
him
for
a
space
,
and
then
he
was
seized
with
a
paroxysm
of
sobbing
laughter
...
After
a
great
interval
of
time
he
became
aware
that
he
was
near
the
lower
edge
of
the
snow
.
Below
,
down
what
was
now
a
moonlit
and
practicable
slope
,
he
saw
the
dark
and
broken
appearance
of
rock-strewn
turf
.
He
struggled
to
his
feet
,
aching
in
every
joint
and
limb
,
got
down
painfully
from
the
heaped
loose
snow
about
him
,
went
downward
until
he
was
on
the
turf
,
and
there
dropped
rather
than
lay
beside
a
boulder
,
drank
deep
from
the
flask
in
his
inner
pocket
,
and
instantly
fell
asleep
...
He
was
awakened
by
the
singing
of
birds
in
the
trees
far
below
.
He
sat
up
and
perceived
he
was
on
a
little
alp
at
the
foot
of
a
vast
precipice
,
that
was
grooved
by
the
gully
down
which
he
and
his
snow
had
come
.
Over
against
him
another
wall
of
rock
reared
itself
against
the
sky
.
The
gorge
between
these
precipices
ran
east
and
west
and
was
full
of
the
morning
sunlight
,
which
lit
to
the
westward
the
mass
of
fallen
mountain
that
closed
the
descending
gorge
.
Below
him
it
seemed
there
was
a
precipice
equally
steep
,
but
behind
the
snow
in
the
gully
he
found
a
sort
of
chimney-cleft
dripping
with
snow-water
down
which
a
desperate
man
might
venture
.
He
found
it
easier
than
it
seemed
,
and
came
at
last
to
another
desolate
alp
,
and
then
after
a
rock
climb
of
no
particular
difficulty
to
a
steep
slope
of
trees
.
He
took
his
bearings
and
turned
his
face
up
the
gorge
,
for
he
saw
it
opened
out
above
upon
green
meadows
,
among
which
he
now
glimpsed
quite
distinctly
a
cluster
of
stone
huts
of
unfamiliar
fashion
.
At
times
his
progress
was
like
clambering
along
the
face
of
a
wall
,
and
after
a
time
the
rising
sun
ceased
to
strike
along
the
gorge
,
the
voices
of
the
singing
birds
died
away
,
and
the
air
grew
cold
and
dark
about
him
.
But
the
distant
valley
with
its
houses
was
all
the
brighter
for
that
.
He
came
presently
to
talus
,
and
among
the
rocks
he
noted
--
for
he
was
an
observant
man
--
an
unfamiliar
fern
that
seemed
to
clutch
out
of
the
crevices
with
intense
green
hands
.
He
picked
a
frond
or
so
and
gnawed
its
stalk
and
found
it
helpful
.
About
midday
he
came
at
last
out
of
the
throat
of
the
gorge
into
the
plain
and
the
sunlight
.
He
was
stiff
and
weary
;
he
sat
down
in
the
shadow
of
a
rock
,
filled
up
his
flask
with
water
from
a
spring
and
drank
it
down
,
and
remained
for
a
time
resting
before
he
went
on
to
the
houses
.
They
were
very
strange
to
his
eyes
,
and
indeed
the
whole
aspect
of
that
valley
became
,
as
he
regarded
it
,
queerer
and
more
unfamiliar
.
The
greater
part
of
its
surface
was
lush
green
meadow
,
starred
with
many
beautiful
flowers
,
irrigated
with
extraordinary
care
,
and
bearing
evidence
of
systematic
cropping
piece
by
piece
.
High
up
and
ringing
the
valley
about
was
a
wall
,
and
what
appeared
to
be
a
circumferential
water-channel
,
from
which
the
little
trickles
of
water
that
fed
the
meadow
plants
came
,
and
on
the
higher
slopes
above
this
flocks
of
llamas
cropped
the
scanty
herbage
.
Sheds
,
apparently
shelters
or
feeding-places
for
the
llamas
,
stood
against
the
boundary
wall
here
and
there
.
The
irrigation
streams
ran
together
into
a
main
channel
down
the
centre
of
the
valley
,
and
this
was
enclosed
on
either
side
by
a
wall
breast
high
.
This
gave
a
singularly
urban
quality
to
this
secluded
place
,
a
quality
that
was
greatly
enhanced
by
the
fact
that
a
number
of
paths
paved
with
black
and
white
stones
,
and
each
with
a
curious
little
kerb
at
the
side
,
ran
hither
and
thither
in
an
orderly
manner
.
The
houses
of
the
central
village
were
quite
unlike
the
casual
and
higgledy-piggledy
agglomeration
of
the
mountain
villages
he
knew
;
they
stood
in
a
continuous
row
on
either
side
of
a
central
street
of
astonishing
cleanness
;
here
and
there
their
particoloured
facade
was
pierced
by
a
door
,
and
not
a
solitary
window
broke
their
even
frontage
.
They
were
particoloured
with
extraordinary
irregularity
,
smeared
with
a
sort
of
plaster
that
was
sometimes
grey
,
sometimes
drab
,
sometimes
slate-coloured
or
dark
brown
;
and
it
was
the
sight
of
this
wild
plastering
first
brought
the
word
"
blind
"
into
the
thoughts
of
the
explorer
.
