"Safe, Well"

They left their ship at Bombay, the railroad and motor cars in northernmost India at Srinagar. They gathered their pack beasts, guides, food, guns, blankets, maps and nerve, and bored on foot into the mountainous fastnesses of Kashmir. Last week, they telegraphed from Dras, 75 miles beyond Srinagar, that they had scrambled safely through fearsome Zoji Pass, were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they -- Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie--purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME, Mar. 16, 30).