. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. with snow andice to very much lower elevations than any mountain onthe North side of the Himalayas, On either side of us toweredup Makalu and Everest, but seen from this point the hugechffs of Chomolonzo presented by far the most astoundingsight. From here I could see a few thousand feet of theSouthern slopes of Mount Everest wliich we had been unableto see from any other point before. From the angle at whichI saw them these appeared very steep, and even if it werepossible and permissible to go into Nepal, it seems improbablethat a practicable route l
. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. with snow andice to very much lower elevations than any mountain onthe North side of the Himalayas, On either side of us toweredup Makalu and Everest, but seen from this point the hugechffs of Chomolonzo presented by far the most astoundingsight. From here I could see a few thousand feet of theSouthern slopes of Mount Everest wliich we had been unableto see from any other point before. From the angle at whichI saw them these appeared very steep, and even if it werepossible and permissible to go into Nepal, it seems improbablethat a practicable route lies up that face of the spent a couple of hours up here taking photographs, enjoyingthe views, and eating my lunch in comfort, for the sun washot and for once in a way there was no wind. To the South-west of us, across the neve, there appeared to be anothereasy pass which seemed to lead round to the South of MoimtEverest, and Ang Tenze, who came from the Khombu VaUey,said that he thought that he recognised some of the moimtain. the alp below the Langnia La, Kama Valley. TO KHARTA BY THE KAMA VALLEY 151 tops that he saw over this, and that if we crossed this pass,we should eventually descend into the Khombu also told me that there were stories that once upon atime there was a pass from the Khombu VaUey into theKama Valley, and that this was probably the pass in question,but that it had been disused for a great number of support his theory we found on the way down a kind ofshelter built of stones and some pieces of juniper hiddenunder a big rock. This would have been too high up forany yak herds to camp, as it was above the grazing pastures,and seemed to prove that the spot might have been used asa halting-place for smugglers or people fleeing from the lawbefore they crossed these passes. It had taken us six and ahalf hours from camp to get up to the top of this pass ; andwe had had no halts on the way beyond what were necessaryto take
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