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- 1936-03-02 - 1936-03-03 (Creation)
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Arrived at Trulung and rejoined Bill; a swarm of cliff-dwelling bees overran camp, stinging many and briefly incapacitating Joker before recovery. Hypsometer readings put the camp at 4917', contrasting with other sources, and plans were laid for Ludlow and Elliot to go to Tsela and Pemakochung while Bill visits Sobhe La and Namdu La before returning to Showa, with later work on the Gyala Range.
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2nd March. Trulung. A fine bright hot day. We got over the driving with no trouble & were in camp soon after 10.30, back with Bill again. Ludlow & Henry gave us all the news, & it was nice hearing everything again. The afternoon was somewhat spoilt by a mass of bees of the big kind that swarm on cliffs, coming over from somewhere & flying angrily about the camp. Many people were stung, & poor Joker was stung inside somewhere & completely laid out, unable to move for an hour or two. But he recovered in the evening.
3rd March. Halt. Fine, cloudy & bright. Stayed in camp & did photographs which have turned out pretty well on the whole. The height of camp site, as worked out from hypsometer readings is 4917'. Morehead 'assumed' it to be 5700' & on the new purple maps I see it is down as 5300'. I don't know if Ward took the height or not, as it is not marked in his map of the Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges. Our various plans are becoming more definite now. I think Ludlow & Elliot will go to Tsela & Pemakochung about 20 April, leaving Bill to go to the Sobhe La & Namdu La before returning to Showa about 15-20 April, in time to get almost everything. Ludlow would be away perhaps a month & then return to work the Gyala Range while Henry would then go
