You trudge along, feeling very tired. At least your improvised gloves are keeping your hands warm.
Snow-capped mountains soar above you, and the sun is out. But you're finding it very difficult to keep your spirits up. The mountains only remind you how vast and remote this landscape is and how small you are.
Go to page 112.
If you're paying attention to section numbers, you'd see that we come to this section if we chose not to follow those deer in the first place. It looks as though following them just gave us another opportunity to make a wrong choice and get ourselves killed.
Yes, drinking un-boiled water is bad for health. Add the fact that there's no more reference to you drinking at all here, it almost made me suspect there may be an editorial error, although a quick skim of the pages didn't reveal any other likely pages it should have redirected us to.
As you round a rocky outcrop, you spot a bright blue lake below you. It's big and surrounded by boulders and scrubby grassland. There might be fish in the lake, and it would also be a good chance to fill up your water bottle.
You think it will take an hour or so to walk down to the lake/ Should you change direction and go to the lake, or carry on the way you're going?
If you decide to walk toward the lake, go to page 92.
If you decide to keep going as you are, go to page 62.
And this is another reason why I almost though the previous reference might have been an editorial error: the book doesn't seem to take into account the fact that we might have just found another pond not too long ago and should have had the chance to fill up our water bottle after boiling some for drinking earlier. I guess it could have been too shallow to provide enough water for that, but the transition still feels like something was left out.
