By daylight the road is good.

It has been cut with much trouble, and loaded mules can pass over without difficulty.

Poles have been erected at short distances to mark the way when the snow covers it.

But when the snowstorms sweep across the mountains, it is impossible to see ten paces before you, and if the traveller leaves the path he is lost." "But I suppose," Cuthbert said, "that even in winter travellers pass over ?" "They do," the host said.

"The road is as open in winter as in summer, although, of course, the dangers are greater.