People will find a way to survive no matter what their home is like, it seems.

[Said with some measure of admiration. Sasuga, humanity... He loves to see people succeed.]

The mountains are cold if you go to their peaks, but at the lower levels and in the basins between them, they're very tolerable. My home was there - between the bases of many mountains.

[He cups his hands together while talking, making a little bowl-basin with his palms.]