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Citation Information
538 THE DEPRESSIONS ALONG THE NORTHERN AND THE SOUTHERN BASE OF THE TRANSHIMALAYA.
only one is situated on the great water-parting. All three systems are gigantic folds separated from one another by the lake depressions. But the Transhimalayan fold is in a much higher degree than the two others subdivided in a series of secondary folds forming a complicated labyrinth of ranges with secondary depressions between them. Therefore the Transhimalaya has a very great number of secondary passes more or less used by pilgrims, merchants, gold-diggers, officials, nomads and hunters. In the following list I have entered 3o secondary passes which are only the most important of those I have crossed and determined. They are arranged
chronologically as I passed them on my journey:
Chapkar-la 5326 m
Pongchen-la 5 3 7 I »
Shib-la 5 349 »
Chesang-la 5474 »
Dangbo-la 52 5o »
Ta-la 5436 »
Chumar-la 5 I o8 »
Tarbung-la 5 267 »
Bang-la 5 237
Sao-lungring 5387 »
Ravak-la 5 2 27 »
Kichung-la 5 504 »
Känglung-la 5528 »
Dolma-la 5669 »
Tseti-la 5628 »
Lamo-latse-la S 4 26 m.
Bokar-la 5178
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Kinchen-la 5 441 »
Lamlung-la 5118 »
Gyägong-la 555425997080 »
Damche-la 55555 44831 18 »
Goa-la »
Lungkar-la »
Chuka-la 20 »
Surla-Kemi-la 356 2 »
Tela-mata-la o »
Tayep-parva-la 2 »
Pu-karu-la 5278
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Kyangyang-la 5157 »
Ding-la (Chargo-ding-la) 5885
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The mean altitude of these passes is 5393 m. Five of them, viz., Dolma-la, Tseti-la, Lungkar-la, Surla-Kemi-la, and Ding-la, are higher than the mean altitude of the passes on the great water-parting. And two of the secundary passes, viz., Surla-Kemi-la (5832 m.) and Ding-la or Chargo-ding-la (5885 m.), are higher than the highest passes I ever crossed on the great water-parting ; the latter being the Jukti-la (5 814 m.) and the Sangmo-bertik-la (5820 m.) The highest of all Transhimalayan passes so far known is the Goring-la, which according to LITTLEDALE has an altitude of 5972 m. and is situated on the great water-parting on the range of Nien-chen-tang-la.
The increasing altitude from the interior of the plateau-land towards the south can also be observed in the heights of the peaks. On the interior ranges there are hardly any peaks that can be compared with those of the Lunpo-gangri or Nien-chentang-la. The highest peak RYDER measured north of Lhasa had an altitude of 7088 m.',
I This is probably the Charemaru, to which Littledale gave an altitude of 7364 m., and Grenard 715o m.
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