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0243 The heart of a continent : vol.1
The heart of a continent : vol.1 / Page 243 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000247
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gallantly leading them up the f
we all helped the ponies along
at them in front, pushing b
and carrying the loads up th
ourselves. But it was terribly h
animals. They could get no pro
climbing up the side? a m
a thin layer of stones on the su
pure ice immediately below w
knees and hocks about in a m
I did not see how this sort of th
browsed a few hundred yards at
twenty miles of glacier ahead. I h
the day, and went at with a m
. We fortunately found, in brow
mountain-side, a narrow stretch of
along which it would be possibl
we marked out, and returned to m

assed, as usual, in the open, fro
d day's work, for at the high alt
the rarefaction of the air mak
d the constant tumbling about
ing the ponies over it added to

following morning we start o
the route we had marked out, f
ome our previous exploiter ha
y another great glacier flowi
ow had a glacier on one side
, and a second glacier right acr
y had remaining pair of both
and my feet so sore from the b
lacier I could scarcely bear to