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Citation Information
THE START FOR TIBET 121
now on the range marked as Baian Kara or Baian-
tu-kou on our maps, though nobody knew those
names. It is the watershed between the Yangtze
and the Huang Ho. He camped at an elevation
of 14,802 feet, and on June 10 made a short
march of only 3i miles up a grassy valley and
over the Ch'a-la Ping Pass, 14,892 feet. Then
he had a nasty descent through heavy, sticky red
clay and up another grassy valley lying between
low hills.
His mules were again causing trouble and he
hired six yaks from Tibetans to go with him to
the Yangtze. After starting in mist and sleet on
June 11 it turned milder and he marched 11
miles to the Sa-yung, 14,792 feet, after crossing
the Ch'a-la-p'ing plateau, 15,012 feet, the highest
point he had so far reached. A broken range
about 5 miles S.S.E. running roughly E.S.E. is
called Mu-mo-di-ya and is apparently a branch of
the range marked on the maps as Baian Kara.
Some of the hills were covered with snow and
about 1000 feet above the valley.
Following up the broad Sa-yung valley for
11 miles on June 12 he halted at the foot of
Ch'a-la-ya-k'ou Pass at 15,269 feet and reflected
that there were very few people in the world
except Tibetans who had encamped at that height
at the age of fifty-seven. " Of all the countries I
have visited," he writes, " Tibet is the most
detestable—one visit is enough." He now found
no difficulty in breathing even at this elevation,
though a climb of even 200 feet would make
him pant, and none of the other people or
animals appeared to be affected by the height.
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