Status Updates From Mount Everest the Reconnais...

The coolies are having a tough time, proper exhausted lol

And we have entered the dry land of descriptions….

The whole thing is so comical like a movie now though….. anything can happen.
The names and places are a bit overwhelming but a crazy person with and icepick attacked their boxes in the village and then he got taken back to the family….lol

I have to say that back in the day books were written in an exceptionally lyrical and philosophical way. The introduction is covered in highlights
Learning about geography and the fact that names of things are spelled much differently nowadays

Jongpen for example

In measuring of themselves against the mountains, men are indeed like puppies, crawling about and testing their capacities on their surroundings , crawling on top of an obstacle, tumbling back but then gallantly climbing back …. And at last finally surmounting it.

Men are like puppies when discovering the world.