They must scale the near-vertical base by climbing rocks and treerootslike ladders -- or take a longer switchback trail -- and then begin an arduous hike uphill, sliding on mud and grasping at alders and shrubs to pull themselves up.
And then there is the strange life force of the Delphos, the way its hem pools on the ground like the spreading roots of a tree, and how the vertical pleating begins to look like bark.