Chapter IX. 
up the slopes of Mt. Baker and thence to traverse under 
Wollaston and Moore Peaks, towards the Cagni Peak. 
Accordingly the party turned its steps first towards 
Grauer’s Camp near to the Moore Glacier, and thence skirted 
the eastern slopes of Mt. Baker, intending to reach the col 
to the east of the Moore Peak. But their eternal enemy the 
fog obliged them to stop on the steep slope in the snow, 
stones and mud. 
On the following day it became plain that it was impossible 
to pursue this route. It was necessary to go down to the narrow 
gorge between Wollaston Peak and Mt. Cagni. This was no 
easy task, and in more places than one they were obliged to let 
down the loads by a rope, and even to let down the porters as 
if they were parcels. Once at the foot of the south-west side 
of the Cagni Peak, which was quite perpendicular to the very 
bottom of the little valley, they ascended this latter as far as 
its head, through a dense wood of heath, and set up their tents 
immediately under the col. 
From this point, on July 8th, they followed the spur which 
bears the Cagni Peak at its end along its whole length from 
north to south, keeping upon its western slope. In this way 
they reached the terminal cone, where they left their equipment, 
and after a short climb in the mist, about 3.30 p.m. they 
reached a small platform, which they took for the summit. The 
camp theodolite was at once set up upon its tripod. Suddenly 
through the mist they perceived to the south the real peak, 
which the refraction of the mist caused them to see as if at 
a very great height over their heads. The theodolite was 
immediately taken down, they descended from the little point 
which they had reached, and after a real Alpine climb up a very 
narrow ridge over a difficult bit of arete, about 12 feet high with 
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