"Looking about, we find a place where it seems possible to climb. I go head; Bradley hands the barometrt to me, and follows. So we procceed, stage by stage, until we nearly to summit. Here, by making spring, I gain a foothold in a little crevice, and grasp an angle of the rock overhead. I find I can get up no farther , and cannot step back, for I dare not let go with my hand, and cannot reach foothold without"(53).
Even Powell knows the adventure will be extremely dangerous, he still want to go for it. His brave acts make him on of the famous people to the America. he did what people weren't do; he took the risk of death to finish reserching the Colorado River.
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