One of my teammates took the time to sight the compass directions of the peaks and to get altitude readings from all the high points. He drafted maps of our cirque, scribing the ridgelines, noting the summits, and using his altimeter to calculate rough elevations. “Maybe you should draw dragons in the margins,” I said. “Dragons?” “You know, in the Middle Ages, when cartographers got to the edge of the map where the rest of the world was unknown, they used to write, ‘Here Be Dragons.’” “Kind of appropriate, since we’re in the Land of the Thunder Dragon,” Yvon added, referring to the traditional
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