human
Create a description of a gloomy scene outside a wilderness mountain with ice, snow, and a canvas backpack.
assistant
Black ice coats everything on the north face of the mountain. Snow clings to it in cracks and crevices, but blows by in a flurry everywhere else. The track is slick and climbing is perilous. Half frozen into the ice are the tattered remains of a canvas backpack, doubtless left behind by some climber desperate to lighten his load.