297 x 237 mm. View showing a snow-filled section of the steep-sided pass, ‘Skirting the edge of the [Buspa] glacier for a short distance I began to ascend the Neela Pass, but had not proceeded more than a mile and a half when I found myself surrounded by such wonderful scenes of ice and snow that I decided to halt for the night (unfavourable as such a place was for encampment) to get some views next day, clouds and mist now obscuring the view. It was bitterly cold, the snow and sleet beat in our faces, not a particle of shelter was to be had anywhere from the cutting wind which swept in fierce gusts down the Pass; and on the broad, open glacier, exposed to all these inclement influences we were pitched for two days and nights at a freezing altitude of 14,000 feet’. Worse was to come, however, when it was discovered that most of the food had been left behind: men were despatched in both directions for supplies, while Bourne waited as long as he could afford for the weather to clear up sufficiently for photography, ‘The weather unfortunately turned out bad, and the first day I was obliged to sit shivering in my tent unable to do anything; it required some resolution to wait another day under such circumstances, but I did. The next day was not much better, but I could wait no longer; so I exposed two plates, but not so successfully as I could have wished, on account of the clouds and rain’, (B.J.P., 1 March 1870, p. 99). Bourne no. 1528.