There were five of them on that mountaintop -- five desperate, stubborn men pitting themselves against icy terrors to hack out a fortune from the frozen earth. They were five rugged, lonely men -- full of hope, and fear, and that strange violence that is bred of nerves and cold and pain. And suddenly there was Lenore -- a no-good faithless woman. Her appearance was the equivalent of tossing a match onto a keg of dynamite.