Tibet in Literature

In 1926, in The Epic of Mount Everest Younghusband wrote:

The Kama Valley...must be the most beautiful valley in the whole Himalaya [today we call the upper reaches of the Kama the Kangshung Valley].... The beauty in the Kama Valley lay in this, that it came straight down from Mount Everest, which filled in all the upper part; that it ran directly under the mighty cliffs of Makalu, a mountain not 2000 feet lower and even more beautiful than Everest; and that its fall was so rapid that while these two great peaks were in full view it had yet descended to altitudes where luxuriant vegetation was possible.... Right opposite the climbers as they [ascended toward the East Face] were the dazzling cliffs of Makalu and Chomolonzo dropping almost sheer 10,000 feet into the valley below and now powdered white with fresh fallen snow - a spectacle of perhaps unequaled mountain glory. To have discovered a valley of such varied mountain, tree, and flower-beauty would alone have been a distinction to any expedition. For many a year it will be only but a few who will ever visit that secluded spot. But it will be satisfaction to man to know that hidden there at the back of the Himalaya is a treasure for him to enjoy in times to come; and that it is one of those treasures which can never be exhausted, but which have the surprising quality that the more they are drawn upon the more there is to draw.”