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Dr. Jules Jacot-Guillarmod Diary Entry Wednesday, 6 September 1905
We leave camp III and return.
On September 6, we leave Camp V, behind but entered the realm of mountaineering history and sadly famous. With our hearts moved and wiping away a tear, we say a last farewell to our dear friend, taking a photograph of his grave that is gloriously lit by the morning sun. Determined to reap some of the fruits of such a distant and costly expedition, and, in the absence of personal and selfish satisfaction, to lift a corner of the veil thrown over the unknown of this eastern part of the Nepalese Himalayas, we relegate the sporting side of our enterprise to the background to put forward the scientific study of the region's resources.
Reymond [Charles-Adolphe Reymond] took over the beetles and, along the way, he also collected a few plants that I, for my part, would study more specifically. From Righi, whose deep knowledge of Hindustani allows him to converse more easily with the natives than with us, he will further improve his knowledge of this language and the study of Tibetan; he will be able to penetrate more deeply into the intimacy of the people and will increase our ethnological knowledge. We now go back down the path we traveled so gleefully two weeks earlier. We soon find again the awful moraines and the complicated network of crevasses, in the middle of which our porters now easily find their way back to their homes.
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