Chapter 4

Cold and without breakfast, von Harben continued the ascent from his cheerless camp, his eyes under the constant urging of his stomach, always alert for food. The terrain offered few obstacles to an experienced mountain-climber, and he even forgot his hunger in the thrill of expectancy in which he anticipated the possibilities hidden by the ridge whose summit now lay but a short distance ahead of him. It is the summit of the ridge that ever lures the explorer onward. What new sights lie just beyond? What mysteries …