243 x 294 mm. View looking along the sheer cliff face, to the side of which clings the narrow road (protected from the drop by a wooden fence) on the caravan route to Tibet. The cliffs are situated near Chini, a village near the Sutlej River some 70 miles ENE of Simla. The cliffs were first visited and photographed by Bourne in 1863, ‘In some places these precipitous walls are so stupendous as to stagger both the sense and the imagination. In the case of the Rogee Cliffs ... they are found rising to the enormous height of 5,000 feet, so that if an unfortunate traveller, venturing on the precarious pathway which runs along the face of the cliff just below the top, should miss his footing, or the planks should chance to give way (a circumstance more probable than otherwise), he would have nearly a mile to fall before his body in shattered fragments found a resting-place in the river below. With scenery like this it is very difficult to deal with the camera: it is altogether too gigantic and stupendous to be brought within the limits imposed on photography ... But where the cliffs do not rise more than a few hundred feet, with the river rolling between them, they form admirable subjects for the camera, having generally fine mountain background. The grand difficulty I had to contend with was to find a standing place for tent and camera, and also to get sufficiently near the river to bring the river in the foreground [a glimpse of water is just visible in this print], since these grand mountain gorges lose half their effect if not taken from below and as near as possible to the water's edge’, (B.J.P., 1 February 1864, p. 51). From the negative number of this photograph, however, it almost certainly dates from Bourne's second visit to the area in 1866 when he again took several views (B .J .P . , 18 February 1870, p . 76). Bourne no. 1502.