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CHAP. VIII.] AN IMPRESSIVE SIGHT. 215

hand, a peak of appalling height, which could

be none other than K.2, 28,278 feet in height,

second only to Mount Everest as the highest

mountain in the world. Viewed from this

direction, it appeared to rise in an almost

perfect cone, but to an inconceivable height.

We were quite close under it—perhaps not a

dozen miles from its summit and here on

the northern side, where it is literally clothed

in glacier, it must have been covered for from

fourteen to sixteen thousand feet with solid ice.

I t was one of those sights which impress a man

for ever, and produce a lasting sense of the

greatness and grandeur of Nature's works---

which he can never lose or forget.

For some time I stood apart, absorbed in the

contemplation of this wonderful sight, and then

we marched on past Suget Jangal till we

reached the foot of the great glacier which

flows down from the Mustagh Pass. Here we

bivouacked. The tussle with these mountain

giants was now to reach its climax, and our

subsequent adventures I must leave to a

separate chapter.

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