IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. Ix.] THE MUSTAGH PASS. 227
apparent nearness of the pass. Everything
here was on a gigantic scale, and what seemed
to be not more than an hour's walk from the
bivouac was in fact a six hours' climb.
It was nearly midday when we reached the
top of the pass, and what we saw there makes
me shudder even now to think upon. There
was nothing but a sheer precipice before us, and
those first few moments on the summit of the
Mustagh Pass were full of intensest anxiety to
me. If we could but get over, the crowning
success of my expedition would be gained. But
the thing seemed to me simply an impossibility.
I had had no experience of Alpine climbing,
and I had no ice-axes or other mountaineering
appliances with me. I had not even proper
boots. All I had for foot-gear were some
native boots of soft leather, without nails and
without heels mere leather stockings, in fact
—which gave no sort of grip upon an icy
surface. How, then, I should ever be able to
get down the icy slopes and rocky precipices I
now saw before me I could not by any possi-
bility imagine ; and if it had rested with me
alone, the probability is we never should have
got over the pass at all.
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