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Though the breathtaking overjoy us, the upcoming road were more turbulent due to
the snow. The road was steep, around 45 in the angle, and you could hardly gain a
steady position.
I managed to shovel one of my feet in the snow, then the other. We crawled like a
snail in the middle of the mountain. Some time I used my hand to climb over a
gigantic obstacle. Stepping on the snow was soft and crispy, I lost my balance from
time to time but it did not hurt at all. The drawback of the snow was that it reflected to

much sunlight that nearly blinded me.

Around 3 o’clock in the afternoon we reached the top, the view was not as

astonishing as I thought of. We were in an uninterrupted succession of mountains, so
on the top of it all you could do was overlooking other mountains. The chilly wind
permeated our soaked clothes, and the dusk was drawing near. Not before long we
went down.

The first half of the descending was extremely amusing. For the road with soft and
steep, and under the influence with gravity, I fundamentally slided to the concrete
ground.
But the joy did not last. Considering the dimming sunlight, we did not reentered the
woods, instead we took the road built for pedestrians. It is composed of numerous
stairs, consequently it was a repletion of a single movement. And the whole progress
took 3.5 hours.
Darkness totally devoured us. we walked by the faint light of the flashlights.
Silence occupied the bleak mountains. Speechless，we maneuvered in the dark. I did
not know how long I walked till we got the foot of the mountains. Ravenous and
exhausted I flung myself to the seats the moment I caught sight of my our van. Thank
god we were back to industrial civilization.

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