. Scottish geographical magazine. MM The Crest of Siniolchum. ROUND KANGCHENJUNGA. 145 to his readers the wonders of a Himalayan landscape. The outlookfrom my coign of vantage was prodigious both in its extent andsplendour, and in the marvellous variety of light and of shadow, ofatmosphere and of colour. Like Tennysons eagle, T stood Close to the sun in lonely landsRinged by the azure world. If I could not, as in the most famous panorama ever imagined, see all thekingdoms of the world and the glory of them, yet all its zones and all itsseasons, arctic frost and equatorial glow, winter and autu
. Scottish geographical magazine. MM The Crest of Siniolchum. ROUND KANGCHENJUNGA. 145 to his readers the wonders of a Himalayan landscape. The outlookfrom my coign of vantage was prodigious both in its extent andsplendour, and in the marvellous variety of light and of shadow, ofatmosphere and of colour. Like Tennysons eagle, T stood Close to the sun in lonely landsRinged by the azure world. If I could not, as in the most famous panorama ever imagined, see all thekingdoms of the world and the glory of them, yet all its zones and all itsseasons, arctic frost and equatorial glow, winter and autumn, spring andsummer, seemed to have met together within the range of mortal was perched at an altitude of about 15,300 feet, on one of the south-western spurs of the Kangchenjunga Group, the snows of which I, as itwere, touched. On one side rose its majestic walls and towers of rockand ice; on the other I overlooked all Eastern Nepal, the valleys of theTambur and Aran and their tributaries, and the southern borderland o
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