Introduction This is the second of two articles describing exploration of the glaciers on the south-eastern flanks of Kanchenjunga. The previous article covers the South Simvu glacier, which was not even on maps until 1955; this is on the exploration of the Zumthul Phuk glacier and its legendary Rock Needles. […]
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“Maps, if caviare[1] to the general, are, as Louis Stevenson has insisted, very suggestive to persons with proper imagination.” – Douglas Freshfield, Round Kangchenjunga, p-20 Story of maps and an invisible glacier For the last few years I have been trying to explore the valleys and glaciers of the south-eastern […]