In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . THE NERPANT ROAD The track now rose on a steep incline to 8120 feetamong huge rocks and boulders. What with the gi-gantic snow-peaks, the pretty waterfalls, the weird char-acter of the country traversed, one got so interested inones surroundings that one forgot all about any difficultyof climbing. From barren hills and rocks the track suddenly be-came clayish and sandy, and in a series of zig-zagswell shaded by Tchuk, Utish, and Ritch trees, with a 66 LAHMARI CAMP thick undergrowth of scrub wood and stunted vegetation,we found ourselv
In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet . THE NERPANT ROAD The track now rose on a steep incline to 8120 feetamong huge rocks and boulders. What with the gi-gantic snow-peaks, the pretty waterfalls, the weird char-acter of the country traversed, one got so interested inones surroundings that one forgot all about any difficultyof climbing. From barren hills and rocks the track suddenly be-came clayish and sandy, and in a series of zig-zagswell shaded by Tchuk, Utish, and Ritch trees, with a 66 LAHMARI CAMP thick undergrowth of scrub wood and stunted vegetation,we found ourselves down as low as 6750 feet, ascendingimmediately after in a very short distance to 8100 feet atCamp Lahmari. In olden times the path went over the highest part ofthe cliff, and it took a good walker the whole day to f. THE NERPANT ROAD reach from one spring of,water to the next—hence thename of waterless. Here practically ended the Nerpani (waterless track),and an involuntary shower-bath soon awaited the passer-by, drenching him to the skin, unless he was providedwith waterproof and umbrella. The spray descendedfrom a great height for a length of some thirty or fortyyards, the road being very narrow and very slippery, so 67 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND that progress was particularly slow. The name of thewaterfall was Takti, The track, if not more level, was nevertheless betterafter this to the sore-footed walker. It was less rocky,and devoid of the tiresome flights of steps. On leaving Lahmari w^e immediately had a steep riseto 9600 feet. Then a drop of 400 feet, and we found
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