The best piece of climbing in Khaghan was the ascent of the most northern Ragee-Bogee peaks (16,700 feet), by Harkabir Thapa alone. This peak is close to the Shikara pass, though separated by one peak from it. Another district visited by Major Bruce in 1898 was in Ladák east of Kashmir--the Nun Kun range. Several new passes were traversed, and peaks up to 19,500 feet were climbed.[E] There is certainly no mountaineer who has a record of Himalayan climbing to compare with Major Bruce's, ranging as it does from Chitral on the west to Sikkim on the east. In fact, to show how the mountains exercise a magnetic influence on him, in the summer of 1898 he saw, what no one had ever seen before, in the short space of two months, the three highest mountains in the world: Devadhunga, K^2, and Kanchenjunga. In 1898 Dr. and Mrs. Bullock Workman traversed several passes in Ladák, Nubra, and Suru; and in 1899, with M. Zurbriggen as guide, went to Askole and up the Biafo glacier to the Hispar Pass. Then they climbed the Siegfried Horn, 18,600 feet, and Mount Bullock-Workman, 19,450 feet, both near the Skoro La. Afterwards, returning to the Shigar valley, Mount Koser Gunge, 21,000 feet, was ascended. The last mountaineering expedition to the Himalaya was that of Mr. Douglas Freshfield, who, in company with Signor V. Sella, Mr. E. Garwood, and A. Maquignaz as guide, made the tour of Kanchenjunga, crossing the Jonsong La, 21,000 feet. FOOTNOTES: [A] See p. 307. [B] _Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa._ By Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S. 1876. [C] Tibetan name: Jomo-kang-kar. [D] Cp. _Travels in Ladâk Tartary and Kashmir_, Lieut.-Colonel Torrens, 1862, pp. 350-360, Appendix. [E] _Alpine Journal_, vol. xx. p. 311. CHAPTER II OUR JOURNEY OUT TO NANGA PARBAT 'And go Eastward along the sea, to mount the lands Beyond man's dwelling, and the rising steeps That face the sun untrodden and unnamed.-- Know to earth's verge remote thou then art come, The Scythian tract and wilderness forlorn, Through whose rude rocks and frosty silences No path shall guide thee then, ... There as thou toilest o'er the treacherous snows.' R. BRIDGES.