. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . acier lying in the Passandam glen, a branch of theTalung Valley, to which other glaciers on a southern spur ofSimvu appear to contribute. The saddle at the head of thisneve leads to the Zemu Glacier. Colonel Tanner reports itto be 17,300 feet high and occasionally used by natives(Survey Reports, 1883-84, p. xxix). Colonel Tanner is not,however, particularly when he repeats the reports of others,an authority in whom 1 am able to place complete reliance.^I believe the saddle to be higher, and as it leads practicallynowhere,
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . acier lying in the Passandam glen, a branch of theTalung Valley, to which other glaciers on a southern spur ofSimvu appear to contribute. The saddle at the head of thisneve leads to the Zemu Glacier. Colonel Tanner reports itto be 17,300 feet high and occasionally used by natives(Survey Reports, 1883-84, p. xxix). Colonel Tanner is not,however, particularly when he repeats the reports of others,an authority in whom 1 am able to place complete reliance.^I believe the saddle to be higher, and as it leads practicallynowhere, I doubt its ever having been used by is certainly not accurately described as only partiallycovered with snowfields on the south side. It seems tome possible that there has been a confusion between it andthe Yumtso La, which leads north from Talung Monastery. Out of the neve just mentioned springs a tremendouscliff capped by rock needles and columns, the buttresses ^ See Alpine Journal, vol. xii. j). 438, for a detailed commentary on ColonelTanners o THE FOOTHILLS 71 of Siniolclium. The peak itself (22,570 feet) tilts againstthe sky, lifting, as it were, its silver spear-head to catchthe first gleam of the rising dawn. Round about itsbase, great granite jags are thrown up against spotlesssnow-fields as the Chamonix Aiguilles are against MontBlanc in the view from the Col de Balme. Siniolchum,which we here admired for the first time, is, and islikely to remain for many years to come, the Jungfrauor Virgin of the Sikhim Highlands. From Darjiling itis seen at a disadvantage behind nearer peaks and the traveller who has gazed up to its crest from theeast or north will not readily forget the lovely apparitionand its almost incredibly perfect grace of form. Whiterthan the Weisshorn, seen from the Bell Alp, it is as steepas the Matterhorn, and from its glacier base to its top thepeak is twice the height of the Zermatt mountain abovethe Hornli. Looked at
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