The disappointment was severe.

Back we turned and tramped up the glacier again, not directly tracing our steps but working at a tangent to the south-east.

We were very tired.
At 5 a.m.we were at the foot of the rocky spurs of the range.

We were tired, and the wind that blew down from the heights was chilling us.
We decided to get down under the lee of a rock for a rest.

We put our sticks and the adze on the snow, sat down on them as close to one another as possible, and put our arms round each other.