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Mountain Structure - part 4
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The pass, saddle, col, and notch.—In general usage the pass is lowest and broadest; the notch is the other extreme. Any of the forms of passes may be the goal of a ski mountaineer who is seeking a route through a region rather than to the top of it. The dangers inherent in the chute, face, and ridge end here, but rarely, in high mountains, without a final battle with a cornice and the wind that made it.
Summit, peak, crest, spire, dome, pinnacle, needle.— The ski mountaineer can choose his own appropriate name for the top. Here the prime objective danger, provided the top is not too pointed a pinnacle or needle, is the weather. But here the mountaineer can best observe the weather coming his way, and can hurry or linger accordingly. If the mountaineer is fortunate he may bask in such weather as described by Mummery on the Matterhorn, when he held out a match and the flame did not waver. His thoughts may swagger with Halliburton's on the same summit ("At last I can spit a mile"), or he may feel, with Young, the need of the "ability to smoke, and consequently to sustain his part in the effortless silence which characterizes the true comradeship of mountaineering." Solitude may affect him as it did Samivel's mountaineer: how much more beautiful it is if there is someone to talk to about it. Perhaps the climber will have none of the published reactions, and will prefer his own. If the weather forbids him to remove a mitt to get a match, much less try to light it, he is likely
not to be really happy about the top until he can say, "How nice it is to have been there," and meanwhile fervently hopes that in his fatigued condition the descent will not seem too much steeper than the ascent, that the weather will not get any worse, and that some of the snow bridges he used in the morning will still exist in the evening. But the skier who has achieved his difficult summit with sound technique, and has equally well achieved the valley again, may now consider himself a true ski mountaineer.
Related terms include alta skiing and xc skiing.
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