. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. many stand out two in particular, both of themprimulas. One was ivory-white, about the bigness of acowslip, with wide open bells and the most delicate primrosescent: the other carried from four to six bells, each as bigas a ladys thimble, of deep azure blue and lined inside withfrosted silver. * As we went down the last steep slope into the RongsharValley, the clouds parted for a few moments, and across thevalley and incredibly high above our heads appeared thesummit of Gauri-Sankar,f one of the most beautiful ofHimalayan peaks, blazing in the
. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. many stand out two in particular, both of themprimulas. One was ivory-white, about the bigness of acowslip, with wide open bells and the most delicate primrosescent: the other carried from four to six bells, each as bigas a ladys thimble, of deep azure blue and lined inside withfrosted silver. * As we went down the last steep slope into the RongsharValley, the clouds parted for a few moments, and across thevalley and incredibly high above our heads appeared thesummit of Gauri-Sankar,f one of the most beautiful ofHimalayan peaks, blazing in the afternoon sun. It was aglorious vision, but it rather added to our regret for the viewsof peaks that we might have seen. The next morning atdaybreak the whole mountain was clear from its foot in the * Both of these are new species; the former has been described asPrimula Buryana, the latter as P. Wollastonii. ?f Gauri-Sankar (23,440 ft.) was for many years confused with MountEverest, which is etill misnamed Gauri-Sankar in German Gauri-Sankar. NYENYAM AND LAPCHE KANG 289 Rongshar River (10,000 feet) up through woods of pineand birch, to rhododendrons and rocks, and so by a knife-edged ridge of ice to its glistening summit. It recalled tome the Bietsch-horn more than any other Alpine peak, aBietsch-hom on the giant scale and seemingly impassableto man. The vaUey of the Rongshar, Kke the Nyenyam and othervaUeys we had visited, though within the Tibetan border,is really more Nepalese in character. The climate is much,damper than in Tibet, as one can see by the wisps of Lichenon the trees and the greenness of the vegetation far up themountain sides, especially at this season of monsoon, whenthe South wind blows dense clouds of drenching moisturethrough the gorges. Like those vaUeys the Rongshar issacred, which is inconvenient when the question of foodsupply is pressing. The people had cattle and flocks ofgoats; they would sell us an ox or a goat, but we must notT?i11 it wit
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