The painting depicts the view of Mount Everest from the peaks of Falut or Sandakkhpu. "In addition to Everest, fifteen peaks of the Himalayan chain exceed Mont Blanc in height. If, from the river Great Rangit, we examine all the approaches to the mountain up to the snow line and all the white domes of the peaks, nowhere such an open wall of heights could be remembered. In this grandiose scale, we find a special appealing experience and greatness of the Himalayas — "The Abode of Snow". Towards sunrise, the peaks merge into a solid wall. An endless toothed ridge of a sacred lizard. It is difficult to guess that it is there that the snow passes Jelap-la and Natu-la are lurking on the way to Shigatse and Lhasa. Fog especially often closes this way".

N. Roerich. Altai – Himalayas.