Suspecting the river at Kharta flowed from the North Col, Mallory and Bullock set off upstream on 2 August. The next day local inhabitants told them a different river flowed from Chomolungma. So they crossed a pass to reach the valley of the Kama River which runs parallel but to the south. They were now very close to Makalu which was further south again. Ahead of them to the west they could see Lhotse and Everest as they approached the Kangshung Glacier and the Kangshung Face. Surrounded by three of the highest peaks in the world Mallory wrote of the Kama valley, For me the most magnificent and sublime mountain scenery can be made lovelier by some more tender touch; and that too is added here. They regarded scaling the Kangshung Face as impossible, with Mallory noting, Other men, less wise, might attempt this way if they would, but, emphatically, it was not for us.