Full text: From the Alps to the Andes

  
EXPEDITION TO THE HIMALAYAS 107 
necessary to bend more to the left, 1 at once 
warned my patrons, who were hastening on, 
not to lose sight of my track—signalised by 
steps cut here and there in the ice. 
In three hours, we at last reached the rocks, 
and here found a level bit of ground where 
we decided to call a halt. During the night, 
snow fell, and prudence forbade further pro- 
gress. Meantime, I reconnoitred to find a 
safe way and, having done so, went back to 
let our party know of it. The usual impedi- 
ments in the shape of crevasses presented 
themselves, and we often had to use the rope 
and were also obliged to help the porters, to 
prevent any misfortune happening. 
Yet we had not proceeded an hour on our 
way, before an accident occurred which, 
luckily, only resulted in a fright. We had 
to cross a crevasse by a great stone which 
lay, bridge-wise, athwart it. My patrons 
and I managed it successfully and we were 
already more than fifty yards ahead, when 
we heard a voice: “Oh, sahib, iderao!” (Oh, 
sir, do come !”). Running back to see what 
had happened, we beheld a porter who had 
fallen into a crevasse, to the depth of about 
five or six yards. I had the rope ready in 
a trice and soon hauled him out, more 
  
 
	        
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