bruno talked quietly to clare. He told her that his grandfather had in deed been the climbing guide for edward crowe and gordon toununge on their last expedition. He also said that throughout his life he'd always felt that there was something strange his grandfather was to blame in some way for the deaths of the two english climbers, but nobody in the village seemed to believe this,And his grandfather had always said that was a 'normal' accident - sad deaths, but it was a chance all climbers accepted. On the occasions when the name of edward crowe had been an uncomfortable silence, sometimes a look, sometimes a change of subject. Always sometimes that had made bruno curious