But the guide went first, as often as not pushed up by Garratt Skinner, and Walter Hine, like many another inefficient man before him, came up, like a bundle, on the rope afterward.

Thus they climbed for three hours more.

Walter Hine, nursed by gradually lengthening expeditions, was not as yet tired.

Moreover the exhilaration of the air, and excitement, helped to keep fatigue aloof.

They rested just below the crest of the ridge and took another meal.
"Eat often and little.