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On our second attempt and successful ascent , we reached this point in just one day . We are right in an avalanche and icefall path . It 's an ideal starting point for a tour of Ghana 's diverse terrain . Although he needed a fire , he knew that open fires were n't permitted in that part of the park . The head scarf keeps falling in front of my eyes , blocking my view , and my legs ca n't reach out properly . " SURFING : Ghost Point would n't be Ghost Point if we told you how to get there — or even what it 's really called . He had a standard Petzl climbing helmet on , and so much snow had been forced through the vents that the helmet chin strap had cut into his neck . Her husband had gone for water , so she began chopping wood for the cooking fire , while her granddaughter watched from the veranda . One hundred yards [ 91 meters ] downhill , seven climbers , most of them members of a Portland-area fire department , were cautiously picking their way around the bergschrund , a 25-foot-deep [ 8-meter-deep ] crevasse . Women wear short , tight manteaus and see-through head scarves . At that point , we hit seven miles [ 11 kilometers ] of a hard ice section called sastrugi , which is a basically wavelike formation of ice . 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 . On Grettir 's first journey outside his home district , he killed a man in a brawl , setting into motion a series of events that ultimately resulted in his being declared a " full outlaw , " condemned to wander the wilderness with a price on his head . For my last evening in Death Valley I heed a Van Valkenburg tip and head into the sand dunes under a full moon .