He glanced at me for a moment as though he doubted I should understand.
"One becomes a personification up there," he said. "One becomes the ambassador of mankind to the outer world.
"There is time to think over a lot of things. One puts one's self and one's ambition in a new pair of scales....
"Then there are hours when one is just exploring the wilderness like a child. Sometimes perhaps one gets a glimpse from some precipice edge of the plains far away, and houses and roadways, and remembers there is still a busy world of men. And at last one turns one's feet down some slope, some gorge that leads back. You come down, perhaps, into a pine forest, and hear that queer clatter reindeer make—and then, it may be, see a herdsman very far away, watching you. You wear your pilgrim's badge, and he makes no sign of seeing you....