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.] ANXIOUS MOMENTS. 229
We slowly edged across the slope after him,
but it was hard to keep cool and steady. From
where we stood we could see nothing over the
end of the slope but the glacier hundreds of
feet below us. Some of the men were so little
nervous that they kicked the fragments of ice
hewed out by Wali down the slope, and laughed
as they saw them hop down it and with one
last bound disappear altogether. But an almost
sickening feeling came on me as I watched
this, for we were standing- on a slope as steep
as the roof of a house. We had no ice-axes
with which to anchor ourselves or give us
support ; and though I tied handkerchiefs, and
the men bits of leather and cloth, round the
insteps of our smooth native boots, to give us
a little grip on the slippery ice, I could not
help feeling that if any one of us had lost his
foothold the rest would never have been able
to hold him up with the rope, and that in all
likelihood the whole party would have been
carried away and plunged into the abyss below.
Outwardly I kept as cool and cheerful as I
could, but inwardly I shuddered at each fresh
step I took. The sun was now pouring down
and just melted the surface of the steps after
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