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You haven't a connection by any chance?" "No. Wish we had. The heliograph is no good, and the telegraph is still under the consideration of some engineer man. But how do you propose to get to Nazri? It's only twelve miles, but they are mostly up on end." "I did it when I was here before. It's easy enough if you have done any rock-climbing, and I can leave with the light. Besides, there's a moon."
The sequel, however, was an invitation to visit their home in North Wales for the Christmas holidays, where there was rough shooting, the only kind I really cared for, boating, rock-climbing, bathing, and the companionship of as lively a family as it was possible to meet anywhere.
The man soon appeared, in the shape of a charcoal-burner, and told us that we were making the ascent much more difficult than it need be made, and also, that we should come to some awkward rock-climbing by the route we had chosen. It was too late, however, to turn back; so we persevered. Before long, I heard a Meinherr! from Christian, in a tone which I knew meant rest and some food.
Winnington, after a rapid look or two, turned away with the thought "That fellow's done some rock-climbing in his day!" But against such a doom as had now gripped Monk Lawrence, nothing availed.
Supposing I managed to climb up to the level of the roof close to the water, how on earth was I to get outside on to the wall of the ravine? I knew from my old days of rock-climbing what a complete obstacle the overhang of a cave is. While I looked, however, I saw a thing which I had not noticed before.
Might ha' done it once upon a time, but wooden legs arn't the best kind o' gear for rock-climbing, sir, any more than they are for manning the yards aboard ship; and that's why I was pensioned-off." "Yes, Tom; but what about you to-night?" "Me, sir? I'm a-going to kiver mysen up with the sail and snooze away in the bottom of the boat."
Tucker improvised what he regarded as highly satisfactory sandals out of felt slippers and pieces of a rubber poncho. Since there seemed to be no rock-climbing ahead of us, we decided to depend on crampons rather than on the heavy hob-nailed climbing boots with which Alpinists are familiar. The snow was very hard until about one o'clock.
Throwback to the rock-climbing monsters of an age long forgotten, it moved among the lesser stones with terrifying grace. Desperate beyond words, Kalus began searching wildly for shelter. His efforts were not in vain.
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