Monte Rosa
Names: Monte RosaRosaBig GoddessGoddess Mountains
First appears in Book 3: The Nonborn King, chapter 38 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 15Aircraft are parked on the far side of the mountain, there since July; the expedition aims to reach and thaw one out.
- Ch 15Monte Rosa is 9082 meters high; the plan is to cross the West Col at about 7800 meters, not summit.
Connections
- containsCamp Bettaforcabase camp below the mountain
- includesCamp 3
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 38Fleet hidden on Monte Rosa
Basil and Aldo choose a snowbound valley on Monte Rosa for hiding the flyers. Basil poses a hypothetical about a treasonous colleague, and Aldo advises surveillance rather than killing.
- Book 3 · Ch 38Aldo's treachery foiled
Before dawn Aldo and the Baroness try to steal Number One, injuring Nazir. Betsy stuns them, and Basil sentences them to be hanged from the aircraft's belly-hatch.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Descent and Basil's request
The party slides down an avalanche runnel, reaches the aircraft and reactivates flyers. Basil asks Aiken for a day's rest and a solo summit climb.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Basil teleported from the summit
Injured on the summit, Basil meets an armored being that offers to teleport him by d-jump; he accepts and both vanish as the others depart believing him dead.