Chapter 15: The Trip to Pater’s Cave
Pater’s Cave, as Jones had labelled it in her mind, was about three hours ride west from Leh, along one of the little rivers that fed into the Indus. Sonam rode with her and of course Argo was at her horse’s heel. Sonam said that he did not know what her father had been doing. He had been very clear, but Jones wasn’t quite sure he was telling her everything.
He had accompanied Franklin when Franklin had spent all his days at the new site. The two of them had gone on horseback with a yak to carry their camping gear and they had generally stayed out for a few of days at a time before returning to the monastery to resupply. That final long summer though, the second one that he spent on the site, Franklin had simply sent Sonam back to resupply whilst he c
