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Our companion now awoke considerably refreshed, and the ascent was continued close to the chasm’s brink. Here were the only rocks to be seen in the vast snow-bed around us. Cautiously we proceed, with cat-like tread, following directly in one another’s footsteps, and holding on to our alpenstocks like grim death. A loosened rock would start at first slowly, gain momentum, and fairly fly.
Swaying, fighting frantically for foothold, there on the chasm’s awful edge, he balanced for an instant; fought for equilibrium. Von Glahn, rigid, watched him.
We were now on the chasm’s brink, looking down into its unfathomable depths. This gigantic rent, hundreds of feet in width and thousands in depth, indicates that northwest-southeast line along which the volcanic forces of Ararat have acted most powerfully.
Now the trail of rocks led us within two feet of the chasm’s edge; we approached it cautiously, probing well for a rock foundation, and gazing with dizzy heads into the abyss. The slope became steeper and steeper, until it abutted in an almost precipitous cliff coated with snow and glistening ice.
His staring, protuberant eyes fell casually upon Brown, who was laying aside his own rifle again and the German’s expression did not alter. "Ibex!" exclaimed Von Glahn softly. Stent, rising impulsively to his feet, bracketted his field glasses on the third peak, and stood there, poised, slim and upright against the sky on the chasm’s mossy edge.
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