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
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o refrain from shooting in the neighbourhoodof monasteries and villages, and that was a very severedrawback, as birds congregated principally about the culti-vated lands near villages. Another difficulty we found wasin catching small mammals, which showed the greatestreluctance to enter our traps, whatever the bait might be.One species only, a vole (Phaiomys leucurus), was trapped;aU the others were shot, and that involved a considerableexpenditure of time in waiting motionless beside burrows.In spite of these disadvantages we made considerablecollections of mammals and birds, and we brought back alarge number of dried plants and seeds, many of which itis hoped will hve in the gardens of this country. Crossing over the Jelep La from Silddm into Tibet inthe latter part of May we found the country at 12,000 feetand upwards at the height of spring. The open level spaceswere carpeted with a dark purple and yellow primiila (P.gammieana), a deUcate little yeUow flower (Lloydia tibetica) 290
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LowKK Kama-chu. NATURAL HISTORY NOTES 291 and many saxifrages^ The steep hillsides were ablazevsdth the flowers of the large rhododendrons (R. thomsoni,R. falconeri, R. aucklandi) and the smaller Rhododendroncampylocarpum, an almost infinite variety of colours.* Adescent through woods of pines, oaks and walnuts broughtus to the picturesque village of Richengong, in the ChumbiVaUey, where we found house-martins nesting under theeaves of the houses. Following up the Ammo Chu, in itslower course between 9,000 and 12,000 feet, we found thevalley gay with pink and white spiraeas and cotoneasters,red and white roses, yellow berberis, a fragrant white-floweredbog-myrtle, anemones and white clematis. Dippers, wag-tails and the white-capped redstart were the commonestbirds along the river-banks. From Yatung we made anexcursion of a few miles up the Kambu Valley, and therefound a very beautiful Enkianthus (Enkianthus himalaicus),a small tree about 15 feet high, with clusters of pink andwhite fl

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