Chapter I. 



in the interval made expeditions u|) the glaciers at the head 

 of the valley. 



First Woosnam alone, then a j^arty consisting of Wollaston, 

 Woosnam and Dent reached, in Febrnary, of 1906, the spnr 

 of rock on the ridii'e where Grauer, Maddox and Teo-art luul 

 p'one in Januarv. 



A few days later Wollaston and Woosnam attempted to 

 scale the peak which rises above the western slopes of the 

 valley (the Kiyanja of Jolniston), but owing to the dense fog 

 they were stopped on a knot) of the ridge at an altitude of 

 16,125 feet, a little below the actual })eak. 



A (JlUii S DALCiinKK.S UF liAllIMA STOCK. 



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