Moving Picture Age (1920) . tain he has spied, through his binoculars, little white speckswhich must be mountain goats. When two of the guides, a camera-man and myself reach the base of the mountain we settle down toa days hard—and dangerous—work. It is only two or three milesto the timberline of the mountain, but those two or three miles meana process of pushing your way upward through a barrier of under-growth, fallen timbers and jungle-like brush. Our faces are scratchedand our legs bruised when we reach the timberline about the timberline the traveling is easier—but more danger
Moving Picture Age (1920) . tain he has spied, through his binoculars, little white speckswhich must be mountain goats. When two of the guides, a camera-man and myself reach the base of the mountain we settle down toa days hard—and dangerous—work. It is only two or three milesto the timberline of the mountain, but those two or three miles meana process of pushing your way upward through a barrier of under-growth, fallen timbers and jungle-like brush. Our faces are scratchedand our legs bruised when we reach the timberline about the timberline the traveling is easier—but more the formation consists of shale, a loose slate-like rock, and oftundra, a short dry grass vegetation. When we are ascending a 90to 120 degree slope in this loose shale we must go very cautiously,testing each tentative foothold most carefully before trusting theweight of the body on it. Shortly after passing the timber the cameraman and I start ona wide detour. The goats at this time are about half way between. Copyright Rothacker Film Mfg. Co. The camera man needed fresh meat, so two of them were shotafter the camera had made its record of the herd as it passed. the timberline and the summit. Our purpose in making the detouris to get above the goat herd, between them and the summit. If wecan get above the goats, the guides are to drive them up to us. Itwould be useless for us to try to slip up on them. A wild goat isstrong on smell—in two respects. He can smell a man even fartherthan a man can smell him. In the mountains the air currents in-variably travel upward. If we approached the goats directly frombelow their noses would tell them that we were on our way andthey would very shortly be on their way. Even if the air currentswere favorable to us and the goats would not catch our scent, thesentinel of the herd would spot us before we could hope to getwithin 500 yards of them—and in order to do any good with thecamera we had to get at least within twenty or t
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