in the valley, and the road plunged down a deep and narrow glen between banks of nodding cyclamens, bold crags, and the greenest of green hillsides. After his expeditions around Kangchenjunga Freshfield wrote of Dzongri: Suddenly you are in the presence of the Snow mountain unless they are indeed as they seem, in the first awestruck moment of beholding, embodied spirits of overwhelming power and malignity. Below you is the Prague Chu Valley; before you on the other side, long line of mountains-a succession of terrible granite spires, running down, one and all so steep and jagged that it seems as if no snow could ever cling to their sides. They have been fearfully searched by winds that mark the course in sweep of the wrinkled drifts and all the scars and lines run downwards giving the mountains an infinitely cheerless and depreciating expression like a sad, worn face. Works Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan including Visits to Ararat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz, London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1869 Italian Alps: Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia, 1875, new ed. 1937 The Exploration of the Caucasus, London, Edward Arnold, 1896 Round Kangchinjinga (Kangchenjunga)', Alpine Journal, Vol. XX, no. 149, August 1900 Round Kangchenjunga: A Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration, London, Edward Arnold, 1903. Dedicated to Joseph Dalton Hooker Hannibal Once More (1914) The Life of Horace Benedict de Saussure (with the collaboration of F. Montagnier), London, Edward Arnold, 1920 Below the Snow Line, London, Constable and Co., 1923 Books by Douglas W. Freshfield in Internet Archive ReferencesObituary: Mr Douglas Freshfield in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 83, No. 3, March 1934, pp. 255–6FRESHFIELD, Douglas William'', in Who's Who 1934 External links Tour Ronde and Col Freshfield on French IGN mapping portal 1845 births 1934 deaths Sportspeople from London English mountain climbers People educated at Eton College Alumni of University College, Oxford Presidents of the Alpine Club (UK) Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society Burials at Brookwood Cemetery People from Forest Row English barristers