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.] A PERILOUS DESCENT. 231
further difficulties before us. We were at the
head of the rocky precipice, the face of which
we should have to descend to reach the ice-
slopes which extended to the glacier at the foot
of the pass. At such heights as those which
we had now reached, where the snow and ice
lie sometimes hundreds of feet thick, it is only
where it is very steep that the bare rock shows
through. The cliff we had now to descend
was an almost sheer precipice ; its only saving
feature was that it was rough and rugged, and
so afforded some little hold for our hands and
feet. Yet even then we seldom got a hold for
the whole hand or whole foot. All we gener-
ally found was a little ledge, upon which we
could grip with the tips of the fingers or side
of the foot. The men were most good to
me, whenever possible guiding my foot into
some secure hold, and often supporting it there
with their hands ; but at times it was all I
could do to summon sufficient courage to let
myself down on to the veriest little crevices
which had to support me. There was a con-
stant dread, too, that fragments of these ledges
might give way with the weight upon them ;
for the rock was very crumbly, as it generally
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