midnight
`` Discovered this the first day I got here , '' said Monty . `` Asked about bears , and a man offered to show me where a dozen of them lived . I was curious to see where a ` dozen bears could live in amity together -- did n't believe a word of it . We set out that afternoon , and did n't reach the top until midnight . Worst climb I ever experienced . Lost ourselves a hundred times . Next day , however , Kagig agreed to let me have as many men as could be crowded together to work , and I took a hundred and twenty .