. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . our patience was rewarded. Themists had lifted and revealed to us for the first time thewalls of the great amphitheatre at the head of the ZemuGlacier. We were face to face with Kangchenjunga. Onour left rose the rocky buttresses and tributary glaciersof Little Siniolchum; on our right was a bold sugar-loafshaped summit. Our camp was too much under themoraine for a satisfactory view, and we hastily debatedhow best to spend that hitherto rare boon, a fine Vittorio Sella naturally preferred to seek a photo-graphic
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . our patience was rewarded. Themists had lifted and revealed to us for the first time thewalls of the great amphitheatre at the head of the ZemuGlacier. We were face to face with Kangchenjunga. Onour left rose the rocky buttresses and tributary glaciersof Little Siniolchum; on our right was a bold sugar-loafshaped summit. Our camp was too much under themoraine for a satisfactory view, and we hastily debatedhow best to spend that hitherto rare boon, a fine Vittorio Sella naturally preferred to seek a photo-graphic standpoint. Garwood, somewhat indisposed,fancied a stroll after wild goats. He was generally ouronly sportsman. Having found on previous expeditionsthat sport is not easily combined with mountain climbingand mapping, we resolved to neglect it except in sofar as it might help our commissariat. Our bag wasconfined, therefore, to a few burhel and musk-deer. Butthe sportsman in Sikhim, according to Lieut. Vickers, may bag two kinds of bears, chamois (GooraT), musk-deer,. of T^^of THE ZEMU GLEN AND GLACIER 109 barkiDg-deer (KJiakur), wild pigs, jungle fowl, monaulpheasants, snow partridges, and pigeons. ^ In the Alps a spot such as that on which we were campedwould have swarmed with marmots. We saw very fewduring our journey. Probably the premature snowfall haddisposed them to their winter sleep. From time to timewe came across some of the large tailless rats, to shootwhich, in the belief of the natives, brings on storms andtempests. My part in the days work was to go up the glacierwith Maquignaz, as far as time would allow, examine theranges at its head, and select, if possible, a site for a stillhigher camp. My general plan, or purpose, at this timewas as follows. In the first place to climb any convenientand accessible peak of from 20,000 to 22,000 feet in orderto reconnoitre the surrounding ridges, and ascertain (l) ifthe 21,000 feet gap leading into Nepal north of Kangchen-jun
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