He put on his jacket and one waistcoat as usual, tied his other waistcoat around his body, so as to serve as a sort of short petticoat reaching to his knees, restored his empty knapsack te its old place, and then shirtless and trowserless, bareheaded and barefooted, trotted on, to use his own language with even a merry heart.

The project went nowhere, but it did plant seeds of copperheadism that germinated a couple of years later.

On a nearer examination, he found this beautiful tint to arise from the young shoots of the common windberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus) which grows there in great abundance.

In this book, all the reports with their text-figures and tables can be said to be the most comprehensive and systematical stratigraphic works about the Mt. Qomolangma Region ever written and published up to present day.