In this note we prove that a
semisimplicial map into the base of a Kan fibration having a continuous lifting to the
total space also has a semisimplicial lifiting, very “close” to a given continuous lifting.
As a special case we obtain a new proof of the famous Milnor-Lamotke theorem that
a Kan set is a strong deformation retract of the singular set of its geometric
realization.