. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. cult to get through. Besidesthese there were many larch and willow trees growing onthe hillside, together with many new and delightful went on untU we were brought up by a series of per-pendicular chSs that descended 700 feet sheer down to theriver below us. It was a grand sight from here to see themighty Bhong-chu or Arun River, narrowed now to one-thirdof its former width, forcing its way in a series of rapidsthrough these stupendous gorges covered with woods whereverthe precipices allowed a tree to grow and with trees dippingtheir branch
. Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921. cult to get through. Besidesthese there were many larch and willow trees growing onthe hillside, together with many new and delightful went on untU we were brought up by a series of per-pendicular chSs that descended 700 feet sheer down to theriver below us. It was a grand sight from here to see themighty Bhong-chu or Arun River, narrowed now to one-thirdof its former width, forcing its way in a series of rapidsthrough these stupendous gorges covered with woods whereverthe precipices allowed a tree to grow and with trees dippingtheir branches far below us in the flooded waters of theriver. On the opposite side of the gorge we saw a smalltrack wandering along the clifis ; the inhabitants told usit was impossible to get across the river lower down at thistime of the year untU you reach Lungdo, where there was abridge some 20 miles lower down. Kharta now remainedthe base headquarters of the Expedition until it was timeto return to India in October, and all the expeditions that. THE MOVE TO KHARTA 111 we made up the Kharta Valley, or into the Kama Valley,were made from Kharta. The Jongpen there and Hopaphemadid everything they could to assist us by giving us cooliesand arranging for supplies to be sent up to the variouscamps. CHAPTER VIITHE KAMA VALLEY We had not been able to gather much information locallyabout Mount Everest. A few of the shepherds said thatthey had heard that there was a great mountain in the nextvaUey to the South, but they could not tell us whetherthe Kharta River came from this great mountain. Theeasiest way to get to this vaUey, they told us, was by crossingthe Shao La, or the Langma La, both of which passes wereto the South of the Kharta Valley, and, they said, led intothis new valley. They called this vaUey the Kama VaUey,and Httle did we reahse at the time that in it we were goingto find one of the most beautiful valleys in the world. MaUoryand Biillock had aheady left Kharta on August 2 to
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