Hine's words drummed in Chayne's ears: "Nevertheless he left us all behind." Garratt Skinner: Gabriel Strood.

Surely, surely! He replaced the volumes and took others down.

In the first which he opened--it was the autumn number of nineteen years ago--there was again mention of the man; and the climb described was the ascent of Mont Blanc from the Brenva Glacier.
Chayne leaned back in his chair fairly startled by this confirmation.

It was to the Brenva route that Garratt Skinner had continually harked back.
The Aiguille Verte, the Grandes Jorasses, the Charmoz, the Blaitiere--yes, he had talked of them all, but ever he had come back, with an eager voice and a fire in his eyes, to the ice-arete of the Brenva route.

Chayne searched on through the pages.