Jarl and eleven picked raiders prepare to climb the Wall in three teams of four. Mance has promised a new sword to each member of the first group to make it to the top. Jon and Ygritte watch their progress from below. Jarl leads the center team and gets a head start using a sentinel tree, while Grigg the Goat leads the team on the right and Errok the team on the left. Styr complains at how slow their progress is. Jarl retains the lead until around noon when his team hits a patch of bad ice, causing a delay. They eventually retake the lead again until the whole section of the Wall they are climbing gives way, and they plummet to earth. Jarl and two of the climbers are killed by the fall, the other is paralyzed and put out of his misery by one of Styr's men. Grigg reaches the top, followed eventually by Errok. They send down long lengths of rope to which ladders are soon affixed. It is a long hard climb, though only two of Styr's men are killed in the ascent. When Jon and Ygritte get to the top, Ygritte says she wishes they had found the Horn of Winter. This is what Mance had been looking for in the Frostfangs, opening many graves and releasing wights in the process. Ygritte says that if they had found it, they could have brought the whole Wall down.