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Image: "Pollinger breaks through", photo by Edward Whymper, from Whymper’s Scrambles with a Camera, edited by Peter Berg, former Hon. Archivist of the Alpine Club

Ink: Poem by I A Richards, the literary critic and alpinist, to his wife, Dorothy Pilley

Recall the Epicoun:

Night, welling up so soon,

Near sank us in soft snow.

At the stiff-frozen dawn,

When Time had ceased to flow,

- The glacier ledge our unmade bed -

I hear you through your yawn:

"Leaping crevasses in the dark,

That's how to live!" you said.

No room in that to hedge:

A razor's edge of a remark