Beyond Korphe K2, the ice peaks of the inner Karakoram knifed relentlessly into a defenseless blue sky.

在 Korphe K2 之外，喀喇昆仑山脉内部的冰峰无情地刺入毫无防备的蓝天。

Haji Ali climbed to his roof and called for all the men of Korphe to assemble at the local mosque.

哈吉阿里爬上屋顶，号召所有科尔飞人到当地的清真寺集合。

Korphe's mosque had adapted to a changing environment over the centuries, much like the people who filled it with their faith.

几个世纪以来，Korphe 的清真寺已经适应了不断变化的环境，就像那些充满信仰的人们一样。

The leader was a thin, unhealthy looking older man who leaned on his cane as he climbed to Korphe.

领头的是个瘦弱的、看起来病态的老人，他拄着拐杖爬上科尔飞。

He stopped, rudely, fifty yards from Haji Ali, and made Korphe's nurmadhar walk out to greet him.

他在离哈吉阿里五十码的地方粗鲁地停下来，让科尔飞的努玛达尔走出来迎接他。

Never again would Korphe's children kneel over their lessons on frozen ground.

科尔飞的孩子再也不会跪在冰冻的地上上课了。

A thousand feet below, Korphe, green with ripening barley fields, looked small and vulnerable, a life raft adrift on a sea of stone.

在一千英尺以下，科尔飞被成熟的大麦田绿化，看起来渺小而脆弱，就像漂浮在石海中的救生筏。

And everyone in Korphe knew the legend of this listing wooden building buttressed with earthen walls.

科尔飞的每个人都知道这座用土墙支撑的木结构建筑的传说。

Mortenson was unsure how the mullah felt about having an infidel in the village, an infidel who proposed to educate Korphe's girls.

摩顿森不确定毛拉对村里有一个异教徒是什么感觉，一个提出要教育科尔飞女孩的异教徒。

For the first time since he'd arrived in Korphe, Mortenson stepped through the gate and set foot inside.

自从来到科尔飞以来，这是摩顿森第一次跨过大门踏入其中。

Sher Takhi, who called Korphe's widely dispersed faithful to prayer five times a day without the benefit of amplification, filled the small room with his booming voice.

谢尔·塔希 (Sher Takhi) 在没有扩音器的情况下，每天五次召集科尔飞广泛分散的信徒祈祷，他洪亮的声音充满了小房间。

During his visits he had kept a respectful distance from the mosque, and Korphe's religious leader, Sher Takhi.

在访问期间，他与清真寺和科尔飞的宗教领袖 Sher Takhi 保持着尊重的距离。

Predictably, the jeeps carrying the wood up to Korphe were halted by another landslide that cut the track, eighteen miles shy of their destination.

不出所料，将木头运到 Korphe 的吉普车在距离目的地 18 英里的另一场山体滑坡中停了下来，山体滑坡切断了轨道。

But he wouldn't back down, and he led our column of thirty-five men carrying roof beams all the way, all eighteen miles to Korphe.

但他不会退缩，他带领我们的三十五人队伍一路扛着房梁，一路十八英里到达科尔飞。

" And so have we." He reached for his rich brown lambswool topi, the only symbol of authority Korphe's nurmadhar ever wore, and centered it on his silver hair.

“我们也是。”他伸手去拿他那件华贵的棕色羊羔绒托皮帽，这是科尔飞的努玛达尔曾经佩戴过的唯一权威象征，然后将它放在他的银发上。

It held its ground firmly before Korphe K2, with snugly built stone walls, plastered and painted yellow, and thick wooden doors to beat back the weather.

它在 Korphe K2 之前稳固地站稳了脚跟，用贴身的石墙、粉刷和涂成黄色，以及厚实的木门来抵御天气。

Korphe's women, accustomed by now to the infidel among them, stood at the edge of the firelight, their faces glowing, as they clapped and sang along with their men.

科尔飞的女人，现在已经习惯了她们中间的异教徒，站在火光的边缘，她们的脸容光焕发，与她们的男人一起鼓掌唱歌。

The previous winter, before leaving Korphe, Mortenson had driven tent pegs into the frozen soil and tied red and blue braided nylon cord to them, marking out a floor plan of five rooms he imagined for the school.

前一个冬天，在离开科尔飞之前，摩顿森将帐篷钉钉入冰冻的土壤中，并在上面系上红蓝两色编织的尼龙绳，在他想象中的学校标出五个房间的平面图。

Though he stood on a plateau high above the Braldu River, in perfect fall weather that made the pyramid of Korphe K2 bristle, Mortenson was disheartened by the prospect before him.

虽然他站在布拉尔杜河上方的高原上，但在完美的秋天天气下，科尔飞 K2 金字塔竖立起来，摩顿森对眼前的前景感到沮丧。

" You're making everyone crazy." " Then he reached out and took my plumb line, and my level and my account book, and he walked back down to Korphe, " Mortenson says.

“你让所有人都疯了。” “然后他伸出手拿走了我的铅垂线、水平仪和账簿，然后他走回科尔飞，”摩顿森说。