The narrow path had opened suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake . Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.
When nature is being destroyed — the steady mountain, your favorite swimming spot, the forest and all its inhabitants -- it seems quite natural that we feel emotional pain.
But in the Karakorum, home to some of the world's most colossal mountains, no one has bothered to even name it, or dozens of other similar peaks around it.
So, to quote the Odyssey, the swells would have hurled her too against those gigantic rocks, had Hera not sent her on through since Jason was dear to her.