IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Southern Tibet : vol.4 | |
| 南チベット : vol.4 |
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引用情報
THROUGH THE KARA-KORUM VALLEYS.
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valleys are extremely rare in the self-contained basins of the interior of Tibet. At one place we have the brook just below our feet, at another we climb a steep slope
to the top of the third terrace, and then go down to the second one. At the right
side there are now five terraces, very well developed and clearly visible the whole way down. At the junction with the right tributary, Lungnak, the height is 4,747 m.,
and in the background of this valley snow-covered mountains are seen, though lower than hitherto. To the N. 5° W. the view is magnificent. Above and beyond the red mountains on the right side of the Chang-chenïno River a dark, nearly black, mighty range is visible dominating everything around. In spite of its apparent height, and obviously on account of its facing towards the south, it is nearly free from snow excepting a rounded peak which is partly white. This peak was said to be situated in the neighbourhood of the pass Chang-lung-barma, a short distance to the west of our consequent route to Clang--lung yogina. Seen from this point, the chain gives the impression of being very compact and of great length. Both the last-mentioned passes are situated in that range, which is the water-parting Karakorum Range. A line joining the Kara-korum Pass with the Chang--lung yog-ma becomes parallel to the high Kara-korum Range with the most elevated K-peaks and the world of famous glaciers as well as with the Western Himalayas. We will later on have to return to this most interesting orographic problem, certainly one of the most gigantic on the earth's surface.
From Lungnak our road continues northwards on the top of the middle terrace. The terraces are a very characteristic feature of the valley. At a passage of solid rock, as usual consisting of reddish gneiss-granite, the road is on a gravel bank which divides the brook into two branches. At the other end of the passage there are a few stone huts, and the place is called Tak-dao (not Yak-dao as on the map). Here a large tributary valley enters from the left, coming from the S. 62° W., where, in the background, snow-covered mountains are to be seen. Those mountains also are no doubt part of the range we crossed in Marsimik-la. The name of this valley is Manlung. It had a considerable rivulet with very muddy water. The road crosses the rivulet, and then follows the left bank of the joint river, with a very mighty perpendicular erosion terrace of gravel and shingle immediately to the left. A little farther on the river is crossed and the road goes up on the top of the right terrace. Bushes and other vegetation is now to be seen, and to the west mighty snowy mountains and peaks, bounding the Chang-chenmo valley, appear. Crossing the last foot hills to the right we finally enter the Chang--chenmo valley which seems to open the landscape, and allows more distant views up and down this great tributary of the Indus System. Here the camp was pitched in the midst of a belt of vegetation.
From the camp at Pamsal, I took a panorama of photographic plates, and from the same place I sketched a panorama around the whole horizon, 7 A and 7 B,
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