Chapter X. 
The Migusi Valley is also formed of a series of successive 
terraces. They ascended first one rise and then another, and 
finally reached a slightly inclined plain leading to the head 
of the valley where the narrow gorge between Mts. Emin 
and Gessi begins. They skirted the plain and ascended the 
right slope of the valley to a point not far from the end 
of the Iolanda Glacier. All of the Bakonjo were marching 
remarkably well. The hardest work was for the guides, who 
had to cut a path through the dense thickets of 
brush. 
Camp X (13,6G8 feet) was set up close to the ancient 
moraine, only a few hundred yards from the present face of 
the glacier, which ends in broken seracs on the brow of a cliff. 
The senecios and helichrysums 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 mornino- of the 1 6th there was hard frost all around 
the camp. The start was made before daybreak. First they 
ascended a gully overhung by the terminal seracs of the 
Iolanda Glacier. Then they crossed the rocks to the right 
of the gully and reached the snow, and then the south-east 
ridge of the mountain. At 6.30 a.m., the Duke set foot 
upon the rocky summit of the Iolanda Peak (15,647 feet). 
The rope had not been used in the ascent. Ollier began at once 
to build a monumental stone man. 
The weather had been threatening when they set forth, but 
had now become quite clear, and the view of the mountains was 
complete in every detail, so that the Duke was able to make one 
more photographic panorama of the entire range. In this way 
the whole chain was photographed in panoramas taken from 
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