Chapter X. 



The Mio-iisi Valle V is also formed of* a series of successive 

 terraces. They ascended first one rise and tlien another, and 

 fiiiallv reached a slio-htlv inclined plain leading to the head 

 of the valley ^^•he^t' the narrow gorge between Mts. Emin 

 and Gessi begins. They skirted the plain and ascended the 

 right slope of the valley to a |K)int not far from the end 

 of the Iolanda Glacier. All <>f tlie Bakonjo were marching 

 reiiiarkablv well. Tlie hardest work was for the guides, who 

 had to cut a path through tlie dense thickets of 

 brush. 



Camp X (13,668 feet) was set up close to the ancient 

 moraine, onlv a few hundred vards from the present face of 

 the glacier, which ends in broken seracs on tlie brow of a cliff. 

 The senecios and helichrvsiiiiis climb up a little higher than 

 the point where the camp was fixed. The view from this 

 high level over the great amphitheatre of mountains is one 

 of the finest panoramas of the whole Ruwenzori range. 



On the morning of the 1 6th there was hard frost all around 

 the camp. Tlie start was made before daybreak. First they 

 ascended a gully overhung by the terminal seracs of the 

 Iolanda Glacier. Then tliey crossed the rocks to the right 

 of the gully and reached tlie snow, and then the south-east 

 ridge of the mountain. At 6.30 a.m., the Duke set foot 

 u])on the i-ocky summit of the Iolanda Peak (15,647 feet), 

 liie rope had not been used in the ascent. Oilier began at once 

 to build a monumentfd stone man. 



The weatlier had been tlncatening when thev set forth, but 

 had now become (piite clear, and the view of the mountains was 

 complete in everv detail, so that the Duke was able to make one 

 nior<' ])hotogi'aphic p;inoi'ania of theciitii'e rani;'e. In this way 

 the wliole chani was photogi'aphed in |)anoi'ainas taken from 



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