| Description | Refers to personal items he needs, and his travelling in Sikkim when on leave 'seventeen of us with thirty coolies carrying our kits and stores', 'If we stepped off the Road we were in Nepal Territory'. He was able to see Mount Everest and the rest of the Himalayas: 'I wonder if you can visualise what it was like at sunrise. First of all the snowy peak would be dark, then it would be violet gradually becoming a marvellous pink, which would slowly die away leaving the peaks standing white & clean in the morning sun'. |