. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . iersbe not more than 6000 to 7000 feet, this is a third morethan that of the Matterhorn above the Hornli. Next to Jannu the characteristic feature of the Chun-jerma view is the meeting of the mountains and the contrast between the low country, the land of flowingcurves and fair colours, of forests and flowers, where the earth has a garment of glories, on the one side, and onthe other the ice mountains which rise opposite and closeat hand, rigid lines and white spires sharply defined andglittering against the dark
. Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration . iersbe not more than 6000 to 7000 feet, this is a third morethan that of the Matterhorn above the Hornli. Next to Jannu the characteristic feature of the Chun-jerma view is the meeting of the mountains and the contrast between the low country, the land of flowingcurves and fair colours, of forests and flowers, where the earth has a garment of glories, on the one side, and onthe other the ice mountains which rise opposite and closeat hand, rigid lines and white spires sharply defined andglittering against the dark heaven, was what has left themost lasting impression in our memories. It was onlyafter a time that our eyes began to take in detail, and thetopographical instinct to assert itself The ring of distantsnows which encircled more than half the horizon claimedcloser attention. Nothing in Nature gains more fromassociation than a distant panorama of mountains. Inthe Alps the mountaineer not only recognises the indivi-dual peaks; he revels in the recollections they \e R A R or THE OFC-ALIFOJ THE KANG LA 199 He feels himself happily surrounded by the familiar facesof old friends. Even in the Caucasus on my second andthird visits I felt how much interest was added to thescenery from meeting again the acquaintances of my recognise the domes of Elbruz soaring above the pikesof Ushba, was like meeting an old College friend. In aregion that a traveller visits for the first time, he is aptto be bewildered by the crowd of peaks and domes andridges ; he is unable at first to identify, or to fix in hismind, more than a few of the most prominent. In acountry that Europeans have never explored, he is stillmore at a loss, for he has no knowledge of local names tohelp him. This was our position with regard to most, butnot all, of the Nepalese heights within our range of vision. There was one notable exception. The snows nearestto the plains, and farthest off in the west, were ste
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