| | | | | | We have seen that the case was exactly the same with Transhimalaya, although the first indication of its existence appears incomparably later on European maps, namely on D'ANVILLE'S. And it is not yet forty years ago since SAUNDERS represented as one single range, that which now has proved to consist of a whole system of different ranges, every one of them offering a hard task of exploring work for future travellers. Before we leave Godwin-Austen's first important contribution to the knowledge of the Kara-korum, we should remember that he has illustrated his paper with a brilliant Sketch Mal of the Glaciers of the Mustakh Range (Trans-Indus), and Valley of Skardo cfc., I which forms a gigantic step forwards, a fundamental document which never would lose its importance, but only be improved in detail and completeness. Between the head of his Nobundi Sobundi glacier and K 2 he has the »Karakoram Range» , as if this name only belonged to this part of the Mustakh Range. North of the Kara-korum Range the map shows a terra incognita, and there still, after 6o years, are regions in this world of inaccessible and majestic mountains covered with snow and ice, that never have been seen by Europeans. |
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