chap, vin STICKY KEEP 117 



was not surprising that fine weather should at last set in. 

 Pedersen went down with Gregory, and Garwood and I 

 were left alone. 



The obvious thing for us to do was to climb the hill 

 behind camp. It has been said that the opposite or east 

 side of the Sassendal is bordered by the remarkably uniform 

 face of the Colorado Hills, which is only broken by one or 

 two insignificant valleys, or rather canons. The west side of 

 the Sassendal, on the contrary, is entered by a whole series of 

 side valleys of considerable size. Delta Valley, the nearest 

 to Sassen Bay, gives access to Advent Vale by a pass which 

 descends almost on to the top of Brent Pass. The second 

 side valley is the Esker, at whose mouth we were encamped. 

 The third leads by a pass to the upper branch of Advent 

 Vale. The fourth is Fulmar Valley, by which we went to 

 the Ivory Gate, and Agardh Bay. Between each of these 

 valleys and its neighbour is a jutting mountain front or 

 bluff. The first of these is Mount Marmier, above Sassen 

 Bay ; the second is the bluff we climbed and named Sticky 

 Keep ; the third protrudes three bluffs towards the Sassendal, 

 and was named by us the Trident ; the fourth is the bluff 

 climbed by M. Rabot, and named Mount Milne-Edwards. 



We set forth to ascend Sticky Keep, Garwood taking 

 hammer and camera, I the everlasting plane-table and its 

 irritating and needlessly bulky legs. There was no climbing 

 on the peak, but a great deal of miscellaneous steep uphill 

 walking, all toilsome and disgusting in various ways. To 

 begin was a slope of smooth hardish mud, about noo feet 

 high, a featureless steep incline, seamed with a few shallow 

 snow gullies, but otherwise the same from side to side 

 and from top to bottom. On this Garwood and I parted 

 company. Above it came a large plateau, as it were paved 

 with flagstones falling into decay, the very, semblance of 

 some ancient ruin, which it was hard to believe the mere 



