“Above this stony desert Dhaulagiri rose into swirling clouds, vast and solitary. For twenty thousand feet there was nothing but the glint of riven glaciers, ridges that seemed like streamers in the wind, and somber rock buttresses higher than the Walker. The sight was so overwhelming that we sat down by the side of the trail feeling slightly numbed” (Lionel Terray, Conquistadors of the Useless).