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This photo and this
one show the morning's section very well indeed - and complement
each other nicely. This is probably the most interesting of the two, as it really does
take in almost all of the Wall we walked that morning. Fix your eyes
on the top-right quadrant, where a distant grey line curves gently
upwards before stopping against the mountain on the right. Well,
that's Wall, and the bottom of the curve is where I was standing when
I took this
picture. The grey fuzzy patch underneath it is this, ie that's
where we started. From there the Wall is obscured by mountains, but
you can trace a lot of our route to the path back down to
the Barracks. Note the bridge at the bottom of the path, the closest
end of which can be seen in this photo. Curious thing: if you'd asked me where this photo was taken from, I'd
probably have said "at the lookout at the very top of the icy
stairs" - except that can't be right, because this shot
occurs earlier on the film than ones I took at the bottom of the icy
stairs, before ascending (eg this
one). Therefore I reckon this was taken at the bottom of
the icy stairs, not the top, which raises the question "what
was the view at the top of the icy stairs, and could you see
the wall?". Answers on a postcard,
please.
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