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this the chimney entered between perpendicular cliffs of 

 great height. This, then, appeared to be the last chance, 

 so Mofiitt and Hutchinson both made determined efforts 

 to get up, but without success. On looking down the 

 gorge, however, there appeared to be a ledge along 

 the wall which had been invisible from below. While the 

 others were trying the crevice, I went down to examine 

 this. It appeared to be the only way out of the difficulty ; 

 so the others came down and we started across. The 

 ledge was three or four feet wide, but sloped at a high 

 angle away from the wall, so that crawling along it was 

 a somewhat unpleasant operation. Further along it 

 narrowed to but little over a foot, but fortunately became 

 level. Hutchinson and Mofifitt came over soon after. 



We were now on the rocky front of the mountain, and 

 a glance above showed a narrow chimney parallel to the 

 big one below. Up this we climbed with the greatest care. 

 Sometimes it was only wide enough to admit a man's 

 body, and we had to work up with knees and elbows. In 

 some places it was filled with clear ice, and great icicles 

 hung directly in the way from some lodged boulder 

 above. These had to be avoided by stepping in the nar- 

 row space between the rock and ice, or by finding foot- 

 holds on the walls. After about five hundred feet of this 

 we suddenly came to a widened portion, and there, tower- 

 ing almost in the zenith, a thousand feet above us, was the 

 summit we had so long worked for. Up to that moment 

 we had not hoped for success. Every instant we had ex- 

 pected to be stopped by some impassable barrier, but now 

 on careful examination there did not appear to be any 

 difficulties ahead worse than those that had already been 

 overcome. Oh, the excitement of the minutes that fol- 



