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“Jojo Rabbit’s” Maori production designer Rā Vincent was also among this year’s indigenous Oscar nominees.

However, at the outset, I had hoped to map, on the scale of 1 inch = 1 mile, the whole area between the Arun Gorge on the East and the Rā Chu on the West: and from the Nepāl-Tibet boundary Northwards for some 20 miles; i.e. to the point where the various streams, flowing in a Northerly direction from the high boundary ridge, issue from the mountains proper into the more rolling foot-hills on the Southern outskirts of the Tibetan Plateau.

On June 24, the day after Messrs. Mallory and Bullock had started for the Rongbuk Valley, Dr. Heron and I marched South across the plain to the village of Sharto, en route Kyet����k, in the Rā Chu Valley, where I intended to establish my base camp while surveying the Kyet����k Glacier and West face of the Cho Oyu—Gyachung Kāng group.

The next three days were spent in moving my base camp to the bridge across the Rā Chu, 6 miles below Kyet����k; taking a light camp up to about 18,000 feet on the prominent hill immediately East of the bridge, climbing the latter, sitting through the usual storms without doing any work, and returning to the bridge.

Originally, I had hoped not only to return to the bridge over the Rā Chu to complete the work in the Kyet����k Valley, but also to take several stations in the valleys running North from the 23,000-foot group North of Everest.