5/27/2023 0 Comments The city of gold and lead![]() Cool in summer, our deep caves were warm, by comparison, in winter. We did not need a great deal by way of heat, protected as we were by dozens, hundreds of yards of solid rock. ![]() ![]() Food had been stored, cattle and winter fodder taken into the inner recesses of the mountain which sheltered us. Preparations for the siege had been made long before. The grip of winter tightened around us, and it was to be more than half a year before those white bony fingers unclenched. In September there was a fall of snow which did not lie, but in the early days of October the snow came again, more heavily, and this time remained. Even when we first came to the White Mountains, in summer, the upper reaches of the Tunnel looked out over fields of snow and ice but at the lower end there were rocks and grass and a view of the glacier, stained brown with mud and dripping into rivulets that ran down to the valley, far far below. ![]()
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