Vzpon nazaj gor

Na dnu ni drugega, kot da se obrne in spleza nazaj gor. Pot navzgor je veliko počasnejša kot navzdol in težja, kot je pričakovala. Med potjo se dvakrat ustavi. Obakrat se dela, da se je ustavila zaradi razgleda.

At the bottom there is nothing to do but turn around and climb back up. Going up is much slower than going down, and it is harder than she expected. She stops twice on the way. Both times she pretends that she is stopping to look at the view.

Na eni od mokrih spodnjih stopnic je prilepek. Sedi v majhni vdolbini v kamnu. Vdolbina ima natanko obliko njegove lupine. Prilepek se že leta vrača na isto mesto in si je tam počasi naredil sedež. Ponoči gre jest. Vsako jutro spet najde pot domov.

On one of the wet lower steps there is a limpet. It is sitting in a small dip in the stone. The dip has exactly the shape of its shell. The limpet has come back to that same place for years, and slowly made a seat there. It goes out at night to eat. Every morning it finds its way home again.

Z vrha vidi otoke v vodi. Popolnoma drugačni so. Ta pečina je bled apnenec, poln lukenj in jam. Tisti otoki so iz rožnatega granita, iz velikih gladkih okroglih skal, nakopičenih druga na drugo.

From the top she can see the islands out in the water. They are completely different. This cliff is pale limestone, full of holes and caves. Those islands are pink granite, big smooth round rocks piled on top of each other.

Polly sede na staro obzidje in še zadnjič pogleda navzdol po useku v skali. Skoraj dvesto stopnic, narejenih ročno, ki se po pečini spuščajo do skodelice mrzle vode. Potem odleti proti severu ob obali.

Polly sits on the old wall and looks down the cut in the rock one last time. Almost two hundred steps, made by hand, going down a cliff to a cup of cold water. Then she flies north along the coast.