He was on the White Spider, a network of sheer ice on which nine mountaineers had died not long before.
他正在“白蜘蛛”上,前不久刚有9名登山者从这块网状薄冰带上失事。
Unfortunately, this meant climbing up a sheer hundred-foot cliff-face of solid ice.
不幸的是,这意味着沿着布满了坚冰的百呎峭壁一路爬上去。
South Georgia rises sheer and stark from the sea, a hundred-mile arc of dark Antarctic peaks, ice fields, and hanging glaciers.
南乔治亚——大海中升起的峭壁荒原,南极巅峰、冰原和浮游冰层绵延百里笼罩四野。