 Who is the man climbing the mountain?
Illustrated by Schoenherr The wind howled out of the northwest, blind with snow and barbed with ice crystals. The sun glinted on black rock glazed by ice, chasms and ridges and bridges of ice. If I were ten years older, it would have been an honor, being picked for the first long jump in the first starship ever. We got lined up between Earth and Mars, you'll remember, and James pushed the button marked 'Jump'. Walking, talking natives on a blue sky planet with 1.1 g gravity and a twenty per cent oxygen atmosphere at fifteen p.s.i. When I say they, I mean a ten-man team of them.
 An astronomical surveyor who ended up there by accident
 A mountain guide looking for survivors  An astronomical surveyor who ended up there by accident  A mountaineer who happened to stumble upon an old radio  A Chang native looking for people on this planet