“Each morning the light to the south was brighter. On the seventh morning we saw the sun⁠—and it was not due until the eighth morning!

“It will be years before we can stop fighting the enclosure of the glacier but we have reached and passed the dead of Big Winter. We have reached the bottom and the only direction we can go in the future is up.

“Each morning the light to the south was brighter. On the seventh morning we saw the sun⁠—and it was not due until the eighth morning!

“It will be years before we can stop fighting the enclosure of the glacier but we have reached and passed the dead of Big Winter. We have reached the bottom and the only direction we can go in the future is up.