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Like a number of other people I 'd met in Sanirajak , the old man , Sivulliq , knew only one expression in English : " You're a better man than I am , Gunga Din ! Exploration by remote control is no less true and valid than exploration in person . Though he did n't know it , he passed within a quarter mile of Rock Lake . At press time , the cause of the accident was still under investigation , though one of the pilots reportedly told his parents that " a tremendous gust " of wind had blasted the chopper just before it crashed . Usually I 'm about an hour into a search like that and I have to shake my head and think , Two hours ago I was going to be having dinner with my girlfriend and now I 'm in the middle of the backcountry and it 's dark and I 'm looking for somebody . As it was , most of the area 's natural prey was in the process of fleeing , due to the multiple hunting parties now combing the landscape and inadvertently disturbing everything . " A small man with a gray-streaked beard and professor 's spectacles , Boyer looks more like a high school math teacher than a mountaineer who has summitted Annapurna and attempted Everest and K2 . Though he did n't notice it at the time , the line of climbers he 'd just seen had disappeared . That seemed to work great , though I stumbled a lot . And even though the low-lying , icebound island has now been charted , it has never been fully explored . Just imagine : a people as committed to understanding the realm of gods and spirits , the time-bending channels of past and future , as my American culture has been to its chemistry and calculus . Near the top , the standard route follows an elegant ridge of snow known as the Hogsback , which is split about halfway up by a dramatic horizontal crevasse , or bergschrund . Majik will just have to deal with it.We reach the upper ledge , barely half a foot ( less than half a meter ) wide , that runs along the cliff face . And , as a firefighter , he reasoned , he of all people should follow the rules . " The poem 's famous line had entered the local vernacular as a sort of vaguely reverential sentiment , although no one had the slightest idea what it meant . I have n't been wearing my hejab long enough to get used to the idea that only face and hands may be exposed to the outside world .