Dec. 1848. 



YANGMA VALLEY. 



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deep down in its glassy bed, every snowy crest and ridge 

 being rendered with perfect precision. 



Nango is about 18,000 feet high; it is the next lofty 

 mountain of the Kinchinjunga group to the west of Junnoo, 

 and I doubt if any equally high peak occurs again for some 

 distance further west in Nepal. Facing the Yangma valley, 

 it presents a beautiful range of precipices of black rock, 

 capped with a thick crust of snow : below the cliffs the snow 

 again appears continuously and very steep, for 2000 to 

 3000 feet downwards, where it terminates in glaciers that 

 descend to 14,000 feet. The steepest snow-beds appear 



LOOKING ACROSS YANGMA VALLEY. 



cut into vertical ridges, whence the whole snowy face is — ■ 

 as it were — crimped in perpendicular, closely-set, zig- 

 zag lines, doubtless caused by the melting process, 



