But I am wrong to call it a craze.

From merely reading books I think it a passion which is easily intelligible.

You are wondering what I am talking about.

My daughter tells me that you are a famous climber.
The Aiguille d'Argentiere, I suppose, up which you were kind enough to accompany her, is not a very difficult mountain." "It depends upon the day," said Chayne, "and the state of the snow." "Yes, that is what I have gathered from the books.

Every mountain may become dangerous." "Yes." "Each mountain," said Garratt Skinner, thoughtfully, "may reward its conquerors with death"; and for a little while he lay looking up to the green branches interlaced above his head.