Figure 10: Jack Longland pole-jumping at Tengkye Dzong using a bamboo pole (Venables 2003). Longland had gained a blue at Cambridge in pole-jumping which had helped make him a fast and safe climber (Ruttledge 1934). In real life, Longland was a lecturer in English literature at Durham University. Photograph taken by Frank Smythe and published courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society, London.

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