Still, I should be sorry to tackle it to-day, even if they had a lift!" "Do you think guides would ?" I asked, less reassured than I had felt at first.
"It depends on the guides.

They are not the first to turn back, as a rule; but they like wind and mist even less than we do.

The guides know what wind and mist mean." I now understood the special disadvantages of the day and realised the obvious dangers.

I could only hope that either Bob Evers or his guides had shown the one kind of courage required by the occasion, the moral courage of turning back.

But I was not at all sure of Bob.