The Wall (2005)
“It had a dark, overhanging trench marked at its crest by a daggerlike watercourse. But now that he was on the inside of it, Hugh found less a cave than a great, yawning, open socket, thirty feet deep and possibly a hundred feet high. Over the eons, brittle, black diorite had sheeted away from beneath the beetling brow, leaving this giant, raw divot.The three women—and now Hugh—had entered halfway up a dihedral that formed the left corner of the Eye’s lid. The dihedral rose into the swirling smo...ke, growing darker and thicker as it curved overhead. On another route, in cleaner stone, the roof might have formed a soaring sculpture. Here, rotted and bottomless, the Eye just seemed to brood.Below, Hugh spied an indistinct ledge in the depths. It was part of an older route, the classic North America Wall. Conceivably the women could have descended to use the ledge as a bivvy site. But it looked too small to hold three people. Besides, they had been embarked on a route all their own, and had proudly refused to borrow from their ancestors.MoreLess
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