The writing is, to put it frankly, clumsy. Example; "The man the boys saw was the Rev. Charles Austin, Church of All Nations, New York City. The Knife Edge, along the sides of which dangerously sheer drops of 1,500 feet are not uncommon, is a curving granite wall, connecting Baxter Peak and Pamola." could you make sense of that? the entire book is just nonsensical babbling.