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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: sharper turns. The rest depended on the instinct of
the horses and pure luck.
It was pleasant in the cool of night thus to run down
through the blackness, shouting aloud to guide our
followers, swinging to the slope, bathed to the soul
in mysteries of which we had no time to take cognizance.
By and by we saw a little spark far ahead of us
like a star. The smell of fresh wood smoke and stale
damp fire came to our nostrils. We gained the star
and found it to be a log smouldering; and up the
hill other stars red as blood. So we knew that we
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