CHAPTER XIII.
FROM GARTOK TO THE JUNCTION WITH THE
SINGI-KAMBA.
In my personal narrative I have described Gartok and my long rest there in the autumn of 1907. Here it only remains to direct the reader's attention to Pan. 350A, B and C, Tab. 62, which will give a much clearer conception of the surroundings than any descriptions in words. The panorama begins with S. 2 5° E. This is about the direction in which 7erko-la is situated. The pass has, according to Ryder, an altitude of 4,938 m. Gartok is at 4,469 m. The distance between the two is 48 km., and the difference in height, 469 m. The ground, therefore, falls from the pass to Gartok at a rate of i :102. Though some of the feeders of the Gartang or Gartok branch of the Indus may be some kilometers longer than the brook from 7erko-la, the inclination of the ground given above may be considered as a figure for comparison with the values of the fall of the Gartang' valley from Gartok and farther down.
S. 9° E. from Gartok, there is a regular conical peak called Taram. From this peak and the whole way across west and to N. 41° W., the panorama gives us an aspect of the mountain range and the different ridges at the left or S. W. side of the valley of the Gartang River. This system is the one that has been called the Ladak Range by Colonel Burrard. Lower down it is pierced in a transverse valley by the joint Indus, just at the point where my route leaves the Indus valley. The system to the right or N. E. of the Gartang; which I had crossed in the yukt2-la as described above', belongs to the Transhimalaya. The following names were given to me as belonging to different mountains and regions of the part of the Ladak Range that is visible from Gartok. To the S. i2° W. , is Lack* and to the right of it, Gatsong; S. 38° W., is Chapchak and S. 5 6° W. , Taj5chak, a rather deep-cut valley in the nearest ranges. To the west, opens the valley, Sungchung, which seems to be the one by which Ryder returned from his memorable
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