Word: rishinala
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...place alone it is possible to break through. The Rishinala, the gorge made by glacial waters draining from these peaks out of the valley, provides a long chimney 4,000 feet deep, along the walls of which it will be necessary to pack the supplies. Shipton and Tilman, two Englishmen who discovered the gorge in 1924 and the only men ever to enter this valley, found that it took them two days to work through the Rishinala before they were able to get to the valley...
...cache of food at the base of the mountain before the monsoon, which begins very soon, prevents any passage through the gorge. This bad weather, which will last until the end of August, will make it impossible to do more than go in to the entrance of the Rishinala where the party will wait until the first of September. Conditions should then be excellent for climbing until about the twentieth when the weather begins to make climbing dangerous...
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