Human: Produce a detailed written description of a foreboding scene outside a canyon with rock, cliff face, and basalt. Assistant: 
Near the top of the cliff there are no footholds that allow progress upwards. One may only climb the cliff face back down or perhaps try their luck and shimmy to the east across the basalt in search of a way up. The wind here is relentless against the exposed rock and anything unlucky enough to be clinging to it.