Rolwaling Himal. The Rolwaling valley, directly south of Guarisankar, was visited in April by ten members of the Royal Netherlands Alpine Club. From Kathmandu we went by car to Barabise along the “Chinese Road” and from there took the steep road via Dulausa through blooming rhododendron woods, which were especially beautiful on the eastern slopes of the Tingsan La. On the seventh day we entered the Rolwaling gorge, disappointed to see that the woods had been destroyed by a tremendous fire seven or eight years ago. At the end of the gorge lies the picturesque, charming Sherpa village of Beding (12,000 feet). From Base Camp at 15,100 feet near the lake at the end of the Tolam Bau glacier, we attempted to climb Chugimago, an elegant cone of fluted ice. The attempt failed because of loose snow and cornices. Margreet Hogeweg, Xander Verrijn-Stuart, Robert Eckhardt, and Frans Visser climbed Parchamo, an easy snow peak of 20,600 feet on the way across the Tashi Labcha pass to Thami.

J. A. Noordijk, Koninklijke Nederlandse Alpen Vereniging