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Create a short description of a foreboding mountain wilderness scene with dervishes, a path, and a rocky ledge.
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Nearly constant wind races across the shadowed mountainside, whipping into life frenzied dervishes of blinding ice and snow crystals. Treacherous by day, footing at night is nigh impossible as the twisting path is all but hidden by darkness. Southward, a rocky ledge offers a path upward.