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The pilgrim’s enchanted eye gazed out at the sheets of blue ice of the Lake of the Peacock Spots, Tso dom-dongma, illuminated by the light shining off the five great peaks of Kanchenjunga. Then, a grey shroud began to form. “Look at the sky,” the pilgrim’s guide warned. “Those will shortly fall in heavy snow, from which no human means can enable us to escape.” “Why proceed up further,” he remonstrated? “Death awaits us in this desolate place. One more hour, and we shall be gone.” Less than a month later, in December 1878, the great scholar, adventurer and imperial...
