It had the effect of tunnel vision, but there was no choice. As she walked, bent against the wind, Annie beside her, she dug in the climbing staff she carried. After only five minutes, the visibility so terrible, the wind so strong, she had decided that their only safe course of action was to tie themselves together, which they did. The clothing they wore was such that she could be exposed to the temperature extreme around them for quite some time without feeling ill-effects, at least theoretically. She was beginning to doubt the theory. The fronts of her thighs, her forehead, her feet and hands were all starting to feel stiff with the cold and wind and, as they walked, she made a decision. lithe downed pilot could not be located within the aext ten minutes, they would turn back. h would be that or lose their own lives. She had not yet mentioned her decision to Annie. There had been ao opportunity to speak, normal speech impossible because of the high-pitched shrieking of the wind through each crevice and niche of rocks, through the snow-buried boughs of the pines.
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