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First snowy ridges on
Kirchirnganger appeared then
most of the mountain except
the extreme tip. Later peaks to
the east shone out for a few
minutes & then were closed
over again. The sun shone
brightly on the snow which
glistened like burnished silver.
Finally the very top of Kirin-
chirnganga came out. The
large precipitous peak just
to the east of Kirchirnga,
known as Jammur is a striking
mass now rising very abruptly
great cliffs falling away from
its snowy field at the summit;
Kirchirnganger is a great mass,
themainridge cleaving a
great semicircle enveloping an
any whitethen Jammur, the
deep shadows being in this