The view obtained immediately after leaving the bungalow, of that colossal, whiterobed trinity with the entire lesser range of snows forming a crown of pearl in a sky of turquoise, was the end and fulfiiment of the expedition. The dips ud valleys fax below faded out of sight and memory and nothing remained but the challenge of Mount Everest's clearly defined idealism, pointing up, Kanchanjunga's in: Hfnite, deep-rooted strength, Kabra's inexhaustible determina:
Up a precipitous, rocky pathway, Singalela was reached; a height of rather under 13,000 feet. Here, though not more intensely beautiful, the panorama is wider than any: other obtained. The descent of some 8,000 fé9t to Dentam is difficult, first down steep, wooded paths, then through a forest of bronze set with amber and jade, through whose gigantic trees the sun filtered from 3 sapphire sky.
Even those of us who had suffered most under the intense cold of the plains, time waterfall. 0 iver" Kuthait." We crossed {orrent by bridge and recrossed by. stepping-stones; we forded and paddled over it, and finally, approaching Déntam in pitch d Wwe came. near ending our days in it' Hurricane lamps sent down from the bungalow to help us along the last steep ascent revealed. the awesome fact that we had crossed, fom horse back and on foot, a lone, rail-less bridge of rough hewn lazs, narrow that one false step would have sent us hurtling to the depths, All the next day's march we had distant views over cultivated slopes, th tier upon tier of paddy fields and little rough huts, past quiet groups of natives spinning, tending Sheep and goats and buffaloes. in groves of bracken amidst flowering Shrubs of pale pink blossom. The last hours ran through dense jangle glow with palest moss and orchids, basta bleak 'Thibetan. monastery find finally out into the open where, from "the bungalow' garden, we! caught a glimpse of the now distant snows, gleaming in the twilight,
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