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First snowy [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] ridges on Kinchinjanga appeared then most of the mountain except the extreme tip.  Later peaks to the east shone out for a few minutes & then were clouded over again.  The sun shone brightly on the snow which glistened like burnished silver.  Finally the very tip of Kinchinjanga came out.  The large precipitous peak just to the east of Kinchinjanga known as Jauner is a striking mass, [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] rising very abruptly great cliffs falling away from [[strikethrough]] its [[/strikethrough]] the snowy field at the summit. Kinchinjunga is a great mass the main ridge making  a great semicircle enclosing an amphitheater of snow. [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] A deep shadow hangs in this