“We plunged into the mountains, on a ‘trail’ which was a trail only in name,” a Hungarian legionnaire in the Le Page column recalled of the night of October 3–4. “Several of our wounded died that night. They could not take falling every ten or twenty yards with their porters. We were all beat, for we had practically not slept since we left our base [four days earlier]. Climb, descend several times each day on these abrupt slopes loaded to the maximum with packs and equipment was back-breaking.”
