He was involved in recruiting and organizing "pandit" explorers to trace out the upper Brahmaputra river and to discover if it was the same as the Tsang-Po.
Harman was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, on 13 May 1850,[1] and trained at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich where he received a Pollock Medal as best cadet in 1869.
In the morning he found his feet frostbitten and had to be assisted back and half his toes needed to be amputated.
He continued his surveys and went towards Kanchenjunga but fell ill on the way and he then was forced to take leave and join his sisters who lived in Florence.
[7][8] Henry John Elwes visited Harman at his home in Darjeeling and found a skin of the pheasant hanging on his wall.