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Page 33
... route , which is very hot and at times fever - ridden , in preference to the cool , healthful and beautiful high - level route via the Kauri Pass , and when I pointed out the disadvantage of the former route , their objections soon ...
... route , which is very hot and at times fever - ridden , in preference to the cool , healthful and beautiful high - level route via the Kauri Pass , and when I pointed out the disadvantage of the former route , their objections soon ...
Page 121
... route , although not an easy route . As a last alternative , I trav- ersed across the mountainside to determine whether or not the glacier was accessible to the east of the route originally planned . There may be a route here , but it ...
... route , although not an easy route . As a last alternative , I trav- ersed across the mountainside to determine whether or not the glacier was accessible to the east of the route originally planned . There may be a route here , but it ...
Page 321
... route to , 42 ; pilgrims at , 42 ; routes to , 32 , 42 Juniper , 66 , 111 , 253 , 270 ; as back- ground for flowers , 190 ; as fuel , 79 , 109 , 122 , 189 ; smell of , as- sociations of , 191 KALIAGHAT , route from , flora of , 38 Kamet ...
... route to , 42 ; pilgrims at , 42 ; routes to , 32 , 42 Juniper , 66 , 111 , 253 , 270 ; as back- ground for flowers , 190 ; as fuel , 79 , 109 , 122 , 189 ; smell of , as- sociations of , 191 KALIAGHAT , route from , flora of , 38 Kamet ...
Contents
The Valley of Flowers | 11 |
The Low Foothills | 22 |
The High Foothills | 35 |
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afternoon Alaknanda River Alaknanda Valley allardias already Androsace ascent avalanche Badrinath Banke Glacier base camp beauty beneath bergschrund Bhotia Bhyundar Pass Bhyundar Valley bloom blue boulder buttress climb clouds cold color crags crest crevasse crossed descended difficult distance Dunagiri east edge Expedition face feet high foot forest garden Garhwal gorge gully halted height high altitudes hillside Himalayas hope hour ice axe icefall inches Joshimath Kamet ledge light Linn looked Mana Peak mists monsoon moraine morning Mount Everest mountain Nanda Devi night Nilgiri Parbat Nilkanta nomocharis Nurbu Pasang Peter pitch plants plateau porters possible potentillas precipices Primula rain Ranikhet Rataban reached rhododendron rock peaks rope route Royle scrambled seemed seen séracs Sherpa slabs sleeping snow field snow ridge snow slope Snowman steep step stream summit tent Tewang Tibetan torrent tracks traverse Valley of Flowers village wall Wangdi weather wind Zaskar Zaskar Range