Those were our early days." And he laughed with a low deep ring of amusement in his voice.
"We were late that day on the mountain," he resumed, "and it was dark when we got down to a long snow-slope at its foot.

It was new ground to us.

We were very tired.

We saw it glimmering away below us.

It might end in a crevasse and a glacier for all we knew, and we debated whether we should be prudent or chance it.