LOOKING BACK TO THE HIMALAYAS FROM THE PLAIN BELOW GURLA MANDHATA. MORNING CLOUDS RISING
I started from Taklakot on July 18, 1905, with Alexis
and Henri Brocherel of Courmayeur (with whom I had
been climbing in Kumaon) and six Bhotia coolies
Lower spurs of Peak, 22,200 ft.
VALLEY TO THE SOUTH OF THE FIRST RIDGE A : VIEW LOOKING
DUE EAST
who had come with us over the Lipu Lekh from
Garbyang. We followed the track across the Karnali,
which, after penetrating the Himalayas of Nepal,
eventually flows into the Ganges, and past the tomb of
Zorawar Singh to the foot of a great buttress on the
