The view across the hills to Kinchinjunga discloses a glittering white wall of perpetual snow, surrounded by towering masses of granite.

The loftiest peaks are Kinchinjunga forty-five miles, and Mount Everest, sixty miles distant from Darjieling.

He had followed his hunch, had got himself attached to the American Kinchinjunga expedition— "And that's why I'm here, and all about it," he finished.