**You reluctantly press onwards. After about a mile, the gently-sloping river bank shifts to ominous, narrow canyon walls on either side.**

The river slices through the surrounding hillside 🏞️, leaving a trecherous gorge in its wake that stretches into endless blackness.

Uphill ⛰️ the path continues in a series of switchbacks and loose boulders.

*Your path forks in two* 

- [⛰️ Go uphill](8-2AA.md)
- [🏞️ Go through the gorge](8-2C.md)
- [⬇️ Go back](8-2.md)