Identifier: mounteverestreco01howa (find matches)
Title: Mount Everest, the reconnaissance, 1921
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Howard-Bury, Charles, 1881- Leigh-Mallory, George Herbert, 1886-1924
Subjects: Mount Everest Expedition, 1921
Publisher: New York Longmans, Green and co. London, E. Arnold & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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top of the pass the wind was blowing keenly,driving the snow into our faces. Besides the 6 inches offresh snow here, there was a good deal of the old snow thathad fallen a week or more ago, and in some places formeddrifts several feet deep. It is seldom that a clear view isever obtained on the Jelep Pass. It rained when we cameover in May and it snowed now, and twice before, when Ihave crossed it, it rained aU the time. Snow fell aU theway down to Gnatong, where there were aheady a couple ofinches of slush. The next mornmg was luckily fine, as wewere to do a long march to Rongh—a distance of only 18nules, but with a descent of 9,500 feet. The first few nuleswe walked through the fresh snow, but in the afternoonwe were wandering among the sweet scents of a tropicaljungle with orchids still flowering on the trees and ripeoranges in the garden of our bungalow. We had jumpedfrom winter to summer in a few hours. The Tibetan mulescame along excellently, doing the march in just over eight
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BACK TO CIVILISATION 179 hours, a very different proceeding to our Government muleson the way up, which we were compelled to discard atSedongchen. We reached Darjeeling on October 25. LordRonaldshay was unfortunately away on tour on his way toBhutan, and as he had travelled via Gangtok, we had missedseeing him on the way. The next few days we spent ingetting rid of the remainder of our stores, selling anythingperishable that we could, getting tents dried and mended,and storing everything else in view of a second Expedition.We here said good-bye to our other interpreter, ChhetenWangdi, who had served us most faithfully throughoutthe Expedition, and it was with the greatest regret that wetook leave of him on the railway station at Darjeeling. Our Expedition had accomplished aU that it had setout to do. All the approaches to Mount Everest from theNorth-west, North, North-east and East had been carefullyreconnoitred and a possible route to the top had been foundup the North-east ridge. Ch

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