A Sportswoman in India 



which crevasse, after falling falling falling, one 

 would find oneself. 



" Thank Goodness ! the breezy summit brought a 

 reaction, and with the wind in our faces we prepared 

 for the last descent. Putting our ' best foot ' fore- 

 most, we hurried down the slope and over the crisp 

 ice, having unroped. Unexpectedly we came across 

 some awkward corners, which had to be circumvented 

 with care. 



" I recollect so well, once, on much the same sort 

 of day, we were almost running down the last mile or 

 so into camp, when a bit of bad ground was en- 

 countered. I held on to the rock with my right hand, 

 and with my left prodded at the snow with the point 

 of my alpenstock, until I had made a fairly good step. 

 Getting carefully round the rock and standing on 

 the one step, I began to do the same for my other 

 foot, and so on. 



" The other members of the party were, one following 

 me, the other crossing higher up. Suddenly, in trying 

 to pass the extreme point of the corner, the snow-steps 

 gave way I slipped and fell. It was upon a steep 

 snow-slope that this took place, at the head of a 

 long, narrow gully. The gully ended in a couple 

 of buttresses leading down to the valley a great 

 drop below. 



" Of course I was whirled down the snow-slope at 

 once, fully thinking that the end had come. All sorts 

 of little, trivial thoughts came into my head, I lost 

 my stick and pitched on the head of the gully, then 



