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surfaces.  Thousands of feet overhead now began to form a lace-like filmy gauze of cirrus that could not have been less than 25000 ft. in altitude.

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When [[strikethrough]] I was [[/strikethrough]] we were within a few hundred feet of the top, we left the lines of bare lava along which we had been picking our way and worked over the sun-eaten surface of the thin layer of snow that encircles the crest.

There the misty cloud fragments that had been chasing one another about the base of the peak came swirling up about the summit and the wind blew fiercely. [[strikethrough]] I began [[/strikethrough]] A severe headache that had been with me all the morning now began to become especially painful & with it a nausea & feeling of general shakiness that made the last 

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