“On the Way Up”
“The glacier, which gave Theo the odd impression of flowing water (so wavy was its surface, so riverlike, its course), ended at the side of the brother mountain. Thousands of pieces of scree, smoothly polished gray stones, lay flat, like ill-fashioned flooring, directly in front of the spot where Theo stood. A butterfly-blue sky, faintly streaked here and there by filaments of cirrus cloud; towering mountains almost completely draped in snow; a frozen white river of glacier; a mostly gray smaller mountain formation; and a wide scattering of stones: such was the scene presented to the pilgrim.”