Straight in front of us, at a distance of some fifty paces from the backs of the Colossi, rose a sheer wall of rock, eighty feet or more in height, that gradually sloped upwards till it formed the base of the lofty snow-wreathed peak, which soared into the air three thousand feet above us.
Gure aurrean zuzen-zuzenean, kolosoen atzeko aldetik berrogeitamar bat urratsetara harresi aldapatsua altxatzen zen, larogei oin edo gehiagokoa, eta pixkanaka goruntz egiten zuen, handik hiru mila oinetara elurrez koroatutako tontorraren oinarria osatu arte.