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All four men were born mountaineers, good climbers, and they were led by the most expert cragsman I have seen.

Excepting head, however, no other quality of a cragsman is required for Sharp Edge; the footing is ample, and the hands would be less called into requisition than even on Striding Edge.'

Once on the summit the successful cragsman can have any wish he may pine for.

He must be helmsman and chief, the cragsman, the rifleman, the boat steerer.

Their enemy is worthy of them, for the chamois hunters, the foresters, the cragsmen of the Austrian Alps are no mean antagonists, as all of us know who have shot and climbed with them.