India Impressions, With Some Notes of Ceylon During a Winter Tour, 1906-7
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As one rides up one can look almost perpendicularly down upon the tin roofs and into the little gardens, as these paths almost double back on themselves at different heights, as they wind up the hills. The manager and proprietor of "Woodlands" was an Italian by birth, but he spoke English like a native. He was one of an expedition which attempted to climb the Kinchin Junga (18,000 feet), a great snow peak of the Himalayas, which is conspicuous from Darjeeling when the clouds dis- close the view... of the wonderful snow-clad range. He occasionally entertained his guests by a lecture in the evenings, illustrated by photographic 228 INDIA IMPRESSIONS slides taken on the expedition (in 1905) in which, ^7=^xs CHARACTERS IN A TIBETAN MASQUE, DARJEELING however, four of the party lost their lives by losing their footing on a snow precipice. Climbing in CALCUTTA— DARJEELING 229 the Himalayas seems to be handicapped by the necessity of taking coohes to carry provisions and camp furniture, as the explorer leaves the human world entirely behind him in entering these trackless snow-bound solitudes.
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