GAZETTEER · THE FROSTCROWN
The Last Cairn
A shoulder-high stack of stones on The Frostcrown's upper flank, well above the snowline — the last place a climber can add a stone and turn back before the ground above is Korgath's.
No one built this cairn on purpose; it grew, one traveller's stone at a time, the way the Korl keep their dead close — a stone set, a word said, nothing asked in return. It sits at the last flat footing before the real climb starts, and everyone who has come down again says the same thing: leave a stone here, because there won't be another chance to leave anything at all until the top, and Korgath already has everything he's owed.
KIND
shrine
PARENT PLACE
The Frostcrown
CLIMATE
exposed alpine shoulder, ~1300m, permanent snow underfoot
DANGER TIER
Tier III
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (3)
located_in
- →The Frostcrown — The Last Cairn sits on The Frostcrown's upper flank, the final threshold before the summit pitch.
expressed_in
- ←The Korl Ancestor-Keeping — The stone-by-stone cairn is the Korl ancestor-custom re-expressed as a threshold for climbers, not a temple.
leads_to
- ←Halfway Camp — The ascent route continues from Halfway Camp up to The Last Cairn before the summit pitch.
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