Four o'clock in the afternoon
But I was quite sure . None of my party could see them , it is true , but I saw them clearly . They were perhaps two hundred feet below the ridge between the Blaitiere and the Grépon and to the left of the Col. '' `` What time was this ? '' `` Four o'clock in the afternoon . '' `` Yes , '' said Chayne . The story was borne out by the telegram . Leaving Courmayeur early , Lattery and his guide would have slept the night on the rocks at the foot of the Blaitiere , they would have climbed all the next day and at four o'clock had reached within two hundred feet of the ridge , within two hundred feet of safety .