Questioning another detail


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Posted by Robert Dilley on January 23, 2005 at 03:10:03 from 216.211.66.252 user rdilley.

Having just finished re-reading Swallowdale I was struck for the first time by a minor text/picture discrepancy.

When they are climbing Kanchenjunga the whole gang rope up as they leave Halfway Camp and we are told (p 329 of my Cape edition) that "There were about five yards between each loop".

Yet in the picture of Roger dangling from the low crag after pointing at the goats, there is obviously not more than 6 or 8 feet of tightly-stretched rope between him and the desperately-clinging Titty. There is no suggestion that Titty had any of the rope in her hands. Anyway, as she was being dragged "back half over the edge" she wouldn't have had a hand free (nor, I imagine, the strength) to hold on to any of the rope.

A minor point, but I am surprised I have never spotted it before. Ex AR semper aliquid novi.



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