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heightened and you want to hear the factory whistle start the day’s work. You can

sense (though not truly feel) their exhaustion, both physical and emotional, and also

understand their growing hope that they were going to prevail after all. When you

pass Crean’s Lake on your way up the saddle, you can grasp the fear, horror and utter

despair they must have experienced momentarily when Tom Crean broke through the

too-thin crust of ice on that little mountain lake. Yet you can also imagine clearly the

immense relief they must have felt when they successfully pulled him out of that

danger!

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