On Sunday, the 16th, after hearing mass at the chapel of Breuil, the party started. Giordano was left sad and lonely at Breuil. I have once more made the great sacrifice of waiting at the foot of the peak instead of climbing it, he wrote in another letter to Sella, and I assure you that this has been most painful to me. He saw them through his telescope pitching their tent at the customary bivouac at the foot of the Tower at 2 p.m. Amé Gorret has described this ascent with enthusiasm: At last we crossed the Col du Lion and set foot upon the pyramid of the Matterhorn! The four men, having left Breuil at 6.30 a.m., arrived at the third tent platform at 1 a.m. and there passed the night. The passage of the cleft that separates the Pic Tyndall from the main peak, named the enjambée, and that stopped Tyndall and Bennen, was accomplished. We were about to enter unknown country, wrote Gorret, for no man had gone beyond this point.