It will keep them warmer and save you from frost-bite.

You might as well squeeze the water out of your stockings too." Garratt Skinner waked Hine from his drowsiness and insisted that his advice should be followed.

It would be advisable that it should be known afterward in Courmayeur that he had taken every precaution to preserve his companion's life.

He took off his own stockings and squeezed the water out, replaced them, and laced on his boots.

For to him, too, the night would bring some risk.