Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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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