Ascent

A lone mountain peak juts into the sky like a broken spear-tip. At its craggy zenith an endless storm rages around the temple of a long-dead sky god. Untold treasures await the brave and hardy hunters who ascend the peak.  Between here and there are a thousand ways to die. Skin flayed away by relentless wind, a tumble from a suddenly bare cliff as you’re carried away on an avalanche of ice. The co…