Chapter VIII. 
Umberto Peak between the Emin and Umberto Glaciers. On 
reaching the right margin of the latter they left their tent 
there some 600 feet above the sixth camp and proceeded to 
ascend over the snow which covered the glacier. At the top 
they turned westward towards a rocky ridge, by means of 
which they reached Umberto Peak. Here they remained for 
five hours, but were scarcely able to catch a glimpse of a 
peak here and there among the mists. They built a big 
stone man upon the wide rocky summit. 
A great ridge of broken and decomposing rock runs north¬ 
ward towards Kraepelin Peak, which is lower and likewise 
rocky. Mt. Gessi, on the other side of the narrow gorge, 
between precipitous cliffs, has the appearance of a vast col 
with two peaks rather slightly accentuated at the northern 
and southern extremities of the long snowy ridge. It was late 
when they returned to the tent near the glacier. The Duke 
would have liked to return upon Umberto Peak on the following- 
day to take angles, but the weather was threatening from the 
dawn. They had supplies for one day only. At such a distance 
from Bujongolo, which was their base, and with so many passes to 
cross on the way, it was not easy to obtain provisions regularly. 
It was therefore necessary to return. 
In half an hour they reached Camp VI, under the Cavalli 
Pass, ascended to the belvedere, in a snowstorm, and in the 
early hours of the afternoon set up their tent once more at 
the foot of Vittorio Emanuele Peak. On the following day, 
a long march, almost entirely in the rain, brought them over 
the Stuhlmann Pass, the head of the Bujuku Valley, and the 
Scott Elliot Pass. They once more set up their tents at 
Camp II, on the shore of the little lake at the foot of the 
western slope of Mt. Baker. Rations had been left ready at 
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