Impressions of what was primarily an adventure. I have endeavoured to record my own personal Great Britain, under the leadership of Professor G. Peaks of the Eastern Himalayas, by a party of mountaineersįrom four nations, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and This book is a personal account of the attempt made inġ930 to climb Kangchenjunga, 28,156 feet, and the success-įul ascent of the Jonsong Peak, 24,344 feet, and other great The Last Porter Returns to Camp on the Jonsong Peak 400Ī Home-made Bridge over the Lhonak River 412 Unexplored Country to North-west of Jonsong Peak : Wind ! Porters descending the Jonsong Peak 382 The Lhonak Peak from the Lhonak Glacier 372 Nearing Camp Three on the Jonsong Peak 352 Peak in tHe background is a minor buttress of the The North Face of the Jonsong Peak - 7,000 feet high -ĭescending the Jonsong Peak below Camp Two : the Pinnacles of Solid Ice - on the way to the Jonsong La 334 The Jonsong Peak from Camp One, Jonsong Glacier 320 The Summit Ridge of the Ramthang Peak 304 The Great Ice Avalanche seen from the Ramthang Peak 298 Grim work on the North-west Ridge : Schneider and Unknown Peak seeVi from North-west Ridge 268 The North-west Ridge of Kangchenjunga 266 The Ice Avalanche that fell towards Camp One 260 The Ramthang and Wedge Peaks from above Camp Two 230 Kangchenjunga, showing proposed route, from the Base Marriage - note the baby on the woman's back 188 Nepali Dwarfs at Kangbachen : the evil effects of inter. The Band of the Pemayangtse Monastery 122ĭevil Dancers of Pemayangtse Monastery 124Īn Unexplored Valley : the Yamatari Valley 172 The Head Lama of Pemayangtse Monastery chats with Kabru and Kangchenjunga from Rinchenpung 116 Wood Johnson Professor Dyhrenfurth Duvanel įrau Dyhrenfurth Wieland Hannah Hoerlin Kangchenjunga at dawn from Darjeeling facing page 22Īt the Base Camp : from left to right, Dr. Ice Fretwork on the Lhonak Glacier : in the background XIV The Ramthang Peak on Ski and Foot 288 XIII The Second Attempt: the north-west ridoe 258 XI The First Attempt : the great ice wall 214 II Kangchenjunga : Its Nature and History 18 The Camelot Fren Ltd., London and Southampton
ICE FRETWORK ON THE LHONAK GLACIER : IN THE BACKGROUND Thus man is able to turn his tired eyes towards the snows, and reflect that there are still worlds unconquered towards which he can gaze for inspiration and hope."- The Kangchenjunga Adventure (1930) by Frank Smythe Only those who can afford the time and expense necessary to penetrate the remote fastnesses from which they spring can view the glories of Everest or the Karakorams, but Kangchenjunga is to be seen by anyone who cares to visit the nill town of Darjeeling, or climb one of the lower foot-hills.
Of the world's first half dozen peaks, Kangchenjunga is the only one that displays its glories to the world at large. It is a mountain great enough to possess its own glaciers radiating from its several summits, and though surrounded by many vassal peaks, which add their quota to the ice rivers radiating from the main massif, the glaciers which flow far down to the fringe of the tropical forests cloaking the lower valleys are the undis- puted possession of the Monarch.
"Of independent mountains, there is no finer example than Kangchenjunga. Tomorrow I hope to go down and find out how things stand." In another letter, written three days later, and published on September 15, he explains that it would have taken him ten minutes to dress, and that he had told Reymond to call him if more help was wanted, which he did not do."- The Kangchenjunga Adventure (1930) by Frank Smythe A mountain 'accident' of this sort is one of the things for which I have no sympathy whatever. Not that I was over anxious in the circumstances to render help. Crowley remained in his tent, and on the same evening wrote a letter printed in The Pioneer on September 11, 1905, from which the following is an extract: "As it was I could do nothing more than send out Reymond on the forlorn hope. "The cries of the survivors soon summoned Reymond, who, apparently, found no difficulty in descending alone from the upper camp.
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