The rescue party, two woodsmen, a physician, and Clark, the North Creek telegraph operator, thrust their snowshoed feet wearily up the last slope to the cabin.

• 救援队中有两位林工,一位医生,还有北溪报务员克拉克。他们穿了雪靴,辛苦地爬完最后一段山坡,到了木屋。