![]() ![]() ![]() "Who is Bob Blackett?" asked Susan "He was father." said Nancy. Turner Bob Blackett "That's mother and Uncle Jim," said Peggy in a queer voice. Under the stones at the foot of the cairn on the summit Roger (who wanted to climb the cairn) finds a box enclosing an inscription on paper written by the Amazons' parents in 1900 (incorrectly reproduced with the date '1901') ( SD28):Īugust the 2nd. The Swallows and Amazons leave the Halfway Camp and climb to the summit on 11 August 1930 ( SD28). Grey Screes and Ling Scar are two spurs leading off from the summit of Kanchenjunga. Titty insists that the Swallows and the Amazons use her chosen name instead of the native name (as with Rio).Ĭairn at the cloud-shrouded summit of Kanchenjunga But the able-seaman, who had heard her, was quick in putting her right: That one’s Kanchenjunga, …. Peggy said the (native) name of the big hill with the peak. ![]() “We must have one of them for Kanchenjunga. The Amazons' parents knew the mountain and called it the Matterhorn.īeyond the moorland ( High Moor) rose the blue hills that from up here looked bigger, far, than they had seemed when looked at from Wild Cat Island or from Holly Howe. Kanchenjunga is a mountain to the north-west of the Lake which features most prominently in Swallowdale. ![]()
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