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The next day we crossed the divide, 
and not a day toosoon. ‘The snow was 
so deep that the trail breaker in front 
was in danger of going over a precipice 
or into a rock crevice at any time. 
After him came the pack animals, so 
that they could make a path for us. 
The path was just the width of the 
horse, and in some places the walls of it 
rose above my head. In such places I 
had to keep my feet high up in the 
saddle to prevent them from being 
crushed. For a half day we struggled 
upwards with danger stalking by our 
\ sides, then on the very ridge of the 
| divide itself, 11,500 feet in the air, with 
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the icy wind blowing a hurricane of 
blinding snow, we skirted along a preci- 
pice the edge of which the snow cov- 
| ered so that we could not be sure when 
| a misstep might send us over into 
