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I have forgotten ; '' and Pierre began to traverse the ice-slope to the left . Garratt Skinner followed without a word . But he knew that when he had ascended Mont Blanc by the Brenva route twenty-three years before , he had kept to the right along the rocks to a point where that ice-wall was crevassed , and through that crevasse had found his path . They passed quickly beneath an overhanging rib of ice which jutted out from the wall , and reached the angle then formed at four o'clock in the afternoon . `` Our last difficulty , Wallie , '' said Garratt Skinner , as he cut a large step in which Hine might stand . `` Once up that wall , our troubles are over . '' Walter Hine looked at the wall .