But the object was something else;definitely bigger than a bird, though I couldn't be sure what it was since it was now getting dark. The following day Mike and I went off to make a reconnaissance for a permanent Base Camp. At first we climbed up onto the moraine bank intending to traverse the top of it, but there were too many ups and downs一so I dropped back into the valley between the moraine bank and the mountain where there was a smooth, easy slope.