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Even
the
wind
's
burden
held
a
peculiar
strain
of
conscious
malignity
;
and
for
a
second
it
seemed
that
the
composite
sound
included
a
bizarre
musical
whistling
or
piping
over
a
wide
range
as
the
blast
swept
in
and
out
of
the
omnipresent
and
resonant
cave
mouths
.
There
was
a
cloudy
note
of
reminiscent
repulsion
in
this
sound
,
as
complex
and
unplaceable
as
any
of
the
other
dark
impressions
.
We
were
now
,
after
a
slow
ascent
,
at
a
height
of
twenty-three
thousand
,
five
hundred
and
seventy
feet
according
to
the
aneroid
;
and
had
left
the
region
of
clinging
snow
definitely
below
us
.
Up
here
were
only
dark
,
bare
rock
slopes
and
the
start
of
rough-ribbed
glaciers
--
but
with
those
provocative
cubes
,
ramparts
,
and
echoing
cave
mouths
to
add
a
portent
of
the
unnatural
,
the
fantastic
,
and
the
dreamlike
.
Looking
along
the
line
of
high
peaks
,
I
thought
I
could
see
the
one
mentioned
by
poor
Lake
,
with
a
rampart
exactly
on
top
.
It
seemed
to
be
half
lost
in
a
queer
antarctic
haze
--
such
a
haze
,
perhaps
,
as
had
been
responsible
for
Lake
's
early
notion
of
volcanism
.
The
pass
loomed
directly
before
us
,
smooth
and
windswept
between
its
jagged
and
malignly
frowning
pylons
.
Beyond
it
was
a
sky
fretted
with
swirling
vapors
and
lighted
by
the
low
polar
sun
--
the
sky
of
that
mysterious
farther
realm
upon
which
we
felt
no
human
eye
had
ever
gazed
.
A
few
more
feet
of
altitude
and
we
would
behold
that
realm
.
Danforth
and
I
,
unable
to
speak
except
in
shouts
amidst
the
howling
,
piping
wind
that
raced
through
the
pass
and
added
to
the
noise
of
the
unmuffled
engines
,
exchanged
eloquent
glances
.
And
then
,
having
gained
those
last
few
feet
,
we
did
indeed
stare
across
the
momentous
divide
and
over
the
unsampled
secrets
of
an
elder
and
utterly
alien
earth
.
I
think
that
both
of
us
simultaneously
cried
out
in
mixed
awe
,
wonder
,
terror
,
and
disbelief
in
our
own
senses
as
we
finally
cleared
the
pass
and
saw
what
lay
beyond
.
Of
course
,
we
must
have
had
some
natural
theory
in
the
back
of
our
heads
to
steady
our
faculties
for
the
moment
.
Probably
we
thought
of
such
things
as
the
grotesquely
weathered
stones
of
the
Garden
of
the
Gods
in
Colorado
,
or
the
fantastically
symmetrical
wind-carved
rocks
of
the
Arizona
desert
.
Perhaps
we
even
half
thought
the
sight
a
mirage
like
that
we
had
seen
the
morning
before
on
first
approaching
those
mountains
of
madness
.
We
must
have
had
some
such
normal
notions
to
fall
back
upon
as
our
eyes
swept
that
limitless
,
tempest-scarred
plateau
and
grasped
the
almost
endless
labyrinth
of
colossal
,
regular
,
and
geometrically
eurythmic
stone
masses
which
reared
their
crumbled
and
pitted
crests
above
a
glacial
sheet
not
more
than
forty
or
fifty
feet
deep
at
its
thickest
,
and
in
places
obviously
thinner
.
The
effect
of
the
monstrous
sight
was
indescribable
,
for
some
fiendish
violation
of
known
natural
law
seemed
certain
at
the
outset
.
Here
,
on
a
hellishly
ancient
table-land
fully
twenty
thousand
feet
high
,
and
in
a
climate
deadly
to
habitation
since
a
prehuman
age
not
less
than
five
hundred
thousand
years
ago
,
there
stretched
nearly
to
the
vision
's
limit
a
tangle
of
orderly
stone
which
only
the
desperation
of
mental
self-defense
could
possibly
attribute
to
any
but
conscious
and
artificial
cause
.
We
had
previously
dismissed
,
so
far
as
serious
thought
was
concerned
,
any
theory
that
the
cubes
and
ramparts
of
the
mountainsides
were
other
than
natural
in
origin
.
How
could
they
be
otherwise
,
when
man
himself
could
scarcely
have
been
differentiated
from
the
great
apes
at
the
time
when
this
region
succumbed
to
the
present
unbroken
reign
of
glacial
death
?
Yet
now
the
sway
of
reason
seemed
irrefutably
shaken
,
for
this
Cyclopean
maze
of
squared
,
curved
,
and
angled
blocks
had
features
which
cut
off
all
comfortable
refuge
.
It
was
,
very
clearly
,
the
blasphemous
city
of
the
mirage
in
stark
,
objective
,
and
ineluctable
reality
.
That
damnable
portent
had
had
a
material
basis
after
all
--
there
had
been
some
horizontal
stratum
of
ice
dust
in
the
upper
air
,
and
this
shocking
stone
survival
had
projected
its
image
across
the
mountains
according
to
the
simple
laws
of
reflection
.
Of
course
,
the
phantom
had
been
twisted
and
exaggerated
,
and
had
contained
things
which
the
real
source
did
not
contain
;
yet
now
,
as
we
saw
that
real
source
,
we
thought
it
even
more
hideous
and
menacing
than
its
distant
image
.
Only
the
incredible
,
unhuman
massiveness
of
these
vast
stone
towers
and
ramparts
had
saved
the
frightful
things
from
utter
annihilation
in
the
hundreds
of
thousands
--
perhaps
millions
--
of
years
it
had
brooded
there
amidst
the
blasts
of
a
bleak
upland
.
"
Corona
Mundi
--
Roof
of
the
World
--
"
All
sorts
of
fantastic
phrases
sprang
to
our
lips
as
we
looked
dizzily
down
at
the
unbelievable
spectacle
.
I
thought
again
of
the
eldritch
primal
myths
that
had
so
persistently
haunted
me
since
my
first
sight
of
this
dead
antarctic
world
--
of
the
demoniac
plateau
of
Leng
,
of
the
Mi
--
Go
,
or
abominable
Snow
Men
of
the
Himalayas
,
of
the
Pnakotic
Manuscripts
with
their
prehuman
implications
,
of
the
Cthulhu
cult
,
of
the
Necronomicon
,
and
of
the
Hyperborean
legends
of
formless
Tsathoggua
and
the
worse
than
formless
star
spawn
associated
with
that
semientity
.
For
boundless
miles
in
every
direction
the
thing
stretched
off
with
very
little
thinning
;
indeed
,
as
our
eyes
followed
it
to
the
right
and
left
along
the
base
of
the
low
,
gradual
foothills
which
separated
it
from
the
actual
mountain
rim
,
we
decided
that
we
could
see
no
thinning
at
all
except
for
an
interruption
at
the
left
of
the
pass
through
which
we
had
come
.
We
had
merely
struck
,
at
random
,
a
limited
part
of
something
of
incalculable
extent
.
The
foothills
were
more
sparsely
sprinkled
with
grotesque
stone
structures
,
linking
the
terrible
city
to
the
already
familiar
cubes
and
ramparts
which
evidently
formed
its
mountain
outposts
.
These
latter
,
as
well
as
the
queer
cave
mouths
,
were
as
thick
on
the
inner
as
on
the
outer
sides
of
the
mountains
.
The
nameless
stone
labyrinth
consisted
,
for
the
most
part
,
of
walls
from
ten
to
one
hundred
and
fifty
feet
in
ice-clear
height
,
and
of
a
thickness
varying
from
five
to
ten
feet
.
It
was
composed
mostly
of
prodigious
blocks
of
dark
primordial
slate
,
schist
,
and
sandstone
--
blocks
in
many
cases
as
large
as
4
x
6
x
8
feet
--
though
in
several
places
it
seemed
to
be
carved
out
of
a
solid
,
uneven
bed
rock
of
preCambrian
slate
.
The
buildings
were
far
from
equal
in
size
,
there
being
innumerable
honeycomb
arrangements
of
enormous
extent
as
well
as
smaller
separate
structures
.
The
general
shape
of
these
things
tended
to
be
conical
,
pyramidal
,
or
terraced
;
though
there
were
many
perfect
cylinders
,
perfect
cubes
,
clusters
of
cubes
,
and
other
rectangular
forms
,
and
a
peculiar
sprinkling
of
angled
edifices
whose
five-pointed
ground
plan
roughly
suggested
modern
fortifications
.
The
builders
had
made
constant
and
expert
use
of
the
principle
of
the
arch
,
and
domes
had
probably
existed
in
the
city
's
heyday
.
