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had already for a long time been using the utmost care 
in crossing the glaciers at this locality. The Finn, 
who had walked boldly along, suddenly felt the 
CREVASSES BLOCKED OUR ROAD. 
snow give way beneath his feet, and fell headlong 
into a crevasse, turning three somersaults in the air 
before he was jammed, sixty feet below, head down- 
wards. A dog which had followed him stood howling 
at the edge of the treacherous crevasse. Although 
he had managed to turn himself head upwards, Savio 
remained for hours in despair in his difficult position ; 
the ice curved over his head, and shut off the edge 
from which he had fallen. The crevasse, which 
narrowed off at the place where the Finn was 
jammed, opened up a little to the right in an 
abyss, dark, wide, and of unknown depth. Наа he 
