Carl Linnaeus, The Lapland Journey, translated by Peter Graves (Edinburgh: Lockharton Press, 1995), p. 137.
The Mountains [2], 15/07/1732, ¶708:
We were now heading for a “kåta” and had to go down a hill that was so steep that I could not walk but had to lie on my back and slither down. It was so high and steep that I went with the speed of an arrow and ended up in wet snow within a foot of a large snow river.