"If we could make our way down from here." Pannis was lying on the edge of an ice crevice, peering down into it. The visibility in the crevice was clear with no fog obscuring the view. After looking around for a bit, he said, "We might be able to avoid taking a longer detour. Look at the direction this crevice follows—it may lead directly through the range of ice mountains ahead. The range doesn't seem too extensive, but making our way around it would take at least two hours."