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152 pages, Hardcover
First published October 26, 2021
..for the long summer hours it beat down on the glacier, and the layer of snow covering it thinned day by day, revealing crevasses and seracs and bands of grayish ice, which by afternoon were veiled with water. Now it was nothing more than an old glacier in retreat, but in its heyday it was well advanced. It evoked fear, rather than today’s pity: mountain passes, abandoned because no longer passable, valleys relegated to legend as lost paradises. As for those who ventured there, no one knows the number of deaths it still stored. They say that it takes seventy years for the glacier to return those it has taken; when they disappeared they were young and strong, they fell along the way to some peak, and when their children were old, a ragged boot, a wooden ice ax, or some other museum piece would peer out from down below, where they had been dragged.