 He contemplated an ascent of the mountain via the north-east ridge but decided that he did not have sufficient time; on returning to Almora he wrote that he had enjoyed 'some of enjoyable trekking, performed entirely on foot to the scandal of right-thinking Indians and Tibetans'.Ruttledge and his wife also made the first known crossing of Traill's Pass between Nanda Devi and Nanda Kot.In 1927, with T. G. Longstaff and supported by Sherpas, Ruttledge reconnoitred the Nandakini valley and crossed a high pass between Trisul and Nanda Ghunti.