Editing Skirling Pass

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The '''Skirling Pass''' is a series of passes into the [[Frostfangs]], located [[beyond the Wall]]. The path is named for the keening sound the wind makes as it blows through it.{{ref|ACOK|51}}

==Geography==
The Skirling Pass is a long, twisting course between mountain peaks and hidden valleys. There is no grass save a few weeds and pale lichen clinging to life amongst cracks in the rock.{{Ref|ACOK|51}} The highest point of the pass is marked with a stone archway. From the top there is a hidden valley, long and v-shaped, amongst the mountains.  A glacier of ice several thousand feet high plugs one end, squeezed between the mountains. Under that icy height is a great lake, its waters a deep cobalt that reflect the snow-capped peaks that surround it.{{Ref|ACOK|53}} [[Shadowcat]]s dwell in the Frostfangs.{{ref|ACOK|51}}

Other paths into the Frostfangs include the [[Giant's Stair]], if it is clear.{{Ref|ACOK|51}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Derk VennemanScouting the Pass.png|thumb|350px|[[Stonesnake]] and [[Jon Snow]] scale the Skirling Pass, by Derk Venneman © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Skirling Pass is considered by the [[Night's Watch]] as a probable place to find [[Mance Rayder]]'s [[wildlings]].{{Ref|ACOK|34}} [[Qhorin Halfhand]]'s group is sent to scout it for signs of wildlings.{{Ref|ACOK|53}} [[Stonesnake]] and [[Jon Snow]] scale the Skirling Pass at night to ambush a trio of wildling watchers, where they kill two of the sentries.{{ref|ACOK|51}} Jon captures [[Ygritte]], but releases the wildling rather than execute her.{{ref|ACOK|51}} 

While retreating back to the [[Fist of the First Men]], the scouts are overtaken by [[Rattleshirt]]'s wildlings, with Jon the only confirmed survivor while Stonesnake is ordered by Qhorin to climb through the [[Frostfangs]] on foot to warn the Night's Watch of the wildling invasion.{{ref|ACOK|68}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
Stonesnake is lost in the Skirling Pass.{{ref|ASOS|Appendix}} Several wildlings attempt to follow the ranger up the mountain, but cease pursuit once the terrain becomes too rough for them and their horses to follow him.{{ref|ASOS|7}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|The Skirling Pass was really a series of passes, a long twisting course that went up around a succession of icy wind-carved peaks and down through hidden valleys that seldom saw the sun.{{ref|ACOK|51}}|thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]}}

{{Quote|There were wonders here as well. He had seen sunlight flashing on icy thin waterfalls as they plunged over the lips of sheer stone cliffs, and a mountain meadow full of autumn wildflowers, blue [[coldsnaps]] and bright scarlet [[frostfires]] and stands of [[piper's grass]] in russet and gold. He had peered down ravines so deep and black they seemed certain to end in some hell, and he had ridden his garron over a wind-eaten bridge of natural stone with nothing but sky to either side. [[Eagle]]s nested in the heights and came down to hunt the valleys, circling effortlessly on great blue-grey wings that seemed almost part of the sky. Once he had watched a [[shadowcat]] stalk a ram, flowing down the mountainside like liquid smoke until it was ready to pounce.{{ref|ACOK|51}}|thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]}}

{{Quote|Before him the Skirling Pass opened up into airy emptiness, and a long vee-shaped valley lay spread beneath him like a quilt, awash in all the colors of an autumn afternoon.{{ref|ACOK|53}}|thoughts of [[Jon Snow]]}}

==Chapters that takes place at the Skirling Pass==
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 51|''A Clash of Kings'': 51. Jon VI]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 51|''A Clash of Kings'': 53. Jon VII]]
*[[A Clash of Kings-Chapter 68|''A Clash of Kings'': 68. Jon VIII]]

==References==
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{{Region Beyond the Wall}}

[[Category:Places beyond the Wall]]
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