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Inch by inch you climb the sheer rock wall, transferring your weight from one hollow to the next with painstaking care. The higher you climb, the more you have to support yourself solely with your fingers until, at last, you reach up and take hold of a trailing mass of tree roots, which are strong enough to hold your weight. With great effort you haul yourself out of the chasm and collapse into the undergrowth: lose 3 ENDURANCE points.

As soon as your strength returns, you check your equipment and advance deeper into the eerie forest.

Turn to 50.

Text copyright © 1987 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1987 Brian Williams.